Trying to create auth key on GPF CryptoStick

[Nicholas Cole]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Wed,  4 Jan 2012 11:21, nicholas.cole at gmail.com said:
>
>> http://www.elliptictech.com/applications-suiteb.php  (for example)
>>
>> requests will be more and more common until gpg is capable of
>> supporting the latest "state of the art".  Even then, it won't satisfy
>> everyone, but at least we'll be able to say "if it's good enough for
>> NIST....."
>
> Well, 2.1 beta supports ECC with the Suite B compliant algorithms.

I know - the gpg team is wonderful. :-)  I wasn't criticising them,
just suggesting that the pressure for longer/different keys was likely
to grow, even if it doesn't really make a lot of sense for most users.

Is there any plan to back-port the ECC support?

N.