ECC and CMS (Re: [Announce] The fifth Beta for GnuPG 2.1 is now available for testing)

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 07/07/2014 04:01 PM, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Thursday 03 July 2014 at 12:05:07, Werner Koch wrote:
>> I just released the fifth *beta version* of GnuPG 2.1.  It has
>> been released to give you the opportunity to check out new
>> features and to fix the bugs in the last beta.
> 
> Congratulations on the new beta!
> 
> About th ECC support in GnuPG 2.1: Does this work with OpenPGP and
> CMS?

ECC support for OpenPGP is defined in RFC6637[0]

> With the same algorithms?

Only the NIST P-curves are currently defined for OpenPGP although some
serpent and brainpool curves also works using the basic framework of
RFC6637 - these are also included in SKS. See e.g. [1] for discussion
on Ed25519 that is currently implemented in GnuPG 2.1 but does not yet
have an RFC.

References:
[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6637
[1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/openpgp/current/msg07194.html

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