Qed wrote: > On 09/23/2006 03:15 PM, Carlo Luciano Bianco wrote: > [..snip..] >> So my point is: what is the real advantage of "DSA2" over RSA >> (if any, beside being the US standard)? > Smaller, much smaller, signatures(on certification this is a desiderable > property). > > [..snip..] >> And therefore, even better, what is the present status of adding to >> GnuPG an "official" ECC keys support? > ECC are not part in RFC2440 nor there's a plan to include them.
You're wrong.
9.1. Public Key Algorithms
ID Algorithm
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1 - RSA (Encrypt or Sign)
2 - RSA Encrypt-Only
3 - RSA Sign-Only
16 - Elgamal (Encrypt-Only), see [ELGAMAL]
17 - DSA (Digital Signature Standard)
18 - Reserved for Elliptic Curve
19 - Reserved for ECDSA
20 - Elgamal (Encrypt or Sign)
21 - Reserved for Diffie-Hellman (X9.42,
as defined for IETF-S/MIME)
100 to 110 - Private/Experimental algorithm.
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