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On 07/04/2018 09:54 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> We also keep gnupg 1.4 in tree that does not, and will not, support ecc. |
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> Well, we have developers using ECC (Curve 25519, to be specific). |
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> I don't really know enough about this to judge but we either need to |
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> allow at least this, or convince those devs to change to RSA. |
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incidentally curve25519 is the one I'm thinking of that isn't |
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standardized, although it is part of current draft version of rfc4880bis |
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(but WG is stalled so no update expected any time soon there). |
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NIST/brainpool are included in RFC6637, but we wouldn't want to accept |
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them for various reasons. |
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There are good reasons these are not provided in the regular interface |
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of gnupg, but requires --expert |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net |
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