Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

Grant Olson kgo at grant-olson.net
Wed Jan 26 22:03:18 CET 2011


On 1/26/11 3:37 PM, Avi wrote:
> As someone who uses GnuPG on a USB stick under Windows, I sincerely hope
> that elliptical curves get added to the 1.4 trunk.
> 
> --Avi
> ----

That was completely uninformed speculation on my part.

But I still think that like any new standard and technology, even after
ECC makes it into an official gnupg release, it'll probably be years
before you'll be able to use it on a general purpose key, due to any
number of systems or users that won't instantly support ECC in OpenPGP.

That was really my main point.

-- 
Grant

"I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war."

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