Elliptic Curve Cryptography

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 08/13/2012 03:19 PM, Sam Smith wrote:
> I read recently about Elliptic Curve Cryptography and how it
> provides much stronger security with much smaller public key
> sizes.
> 
> Does anybody know if Public Key Crypto has any plans to move to
> this with an update to the standard?
> 

Hi Sam,

The standard for OpenPGP is already updated in RFC6637[0], and ECDSA
and ECDH keys according to this standard are already supported in both
GnuPG 2.1 (development) and SKS (development)[1]

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6637.txt
[1]
https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/pull-request/5/elliptic-curve-public-keys

hth

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