Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

[David Shaw]

On Jan 26, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:21, kgo at grant-olson.net said:
> 
>> (Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with using 1.4; I just doubt
>> ECC will be back-ported.)
> 
> Well, at some point in time we might need to do that.  If there are many
> ECC keys in use there is probably a need for ECC for server applications
> as well.

The smaller size of ECC is also useful for embedded systems, which tend to be both memory and CPU constrained.

David