-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- - ---------------------------- Kristian Fiskerstrand http://www.sumptuouscapital.com Twitter: @krifisk - ---------------------------- Qui audet vincit Who dares wins - ---------------------------- This email was digitally signed using the OpenPGP standard. If you want to read more about this The book: Sending Emails - The Safe Way: An introduction to OpenPGP security is available in both Amazon Kindle and Paperback format at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006RSG1S4/ - ---------------------------- Public PGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at http://www.sumptuouscapital.com/pgp/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQKQA3AAoJEAt/i2Dj7frj054P/2T0RQ3CLcUdlZqek46cKboN wVErIfPTb/FHEoRkUbMCiJZY+G5bw81EwbJGVaQXnvitGE8eP+aaSZP53fty6G2I DcSWMLYXj4TJ5QoQnL19vhrg6c9xQ225qtOE0YZFiKYVO0Kfv5ciSToQOgNuKlaM ql835INS/c1ubp/SAb3wgTbzleUBZ/SvAC8xwRMNJsvFKrE7vVjRpRke0oj0BCJH WICp4JAqCShapiaRcE5ndD8d1NVfNsXc3k2uRYr9hvv4PtoPOSehMbD/WV0vpSDx j54ilHBZrgj7LUaSby/2tiwUj1Zf4UzplvjKsTEcA7/XJ+k6ksbl6XX9nRi/vz7n +CYiiCEsozLyC9LMAvy9vci5XKmZ3UFEFDpo7qNo4JHHNEB/YAW19iVAixoclGhc GGvyDBSMz2QVhTzp96y9a+Sqn3qMcehkanHDthyIIhycFled6dX0xWeKYjmkgr6B /lGjBQ+bQdvOAHYaStn3UWW2YfVo06lehdfuxKdAW7+nQMDNOt75oi536lxQkWwv MBfo9k+QgVdCRYbTGSNU98mq5yiGe6YNRkKh/guUrUGHLOzLZJuQAg+0WhlVl27Y rBwrTedFQoRjmITBWOoyeGiZnUPm27muSDknl4NnhfZrL9DDT/+W68hJFpDK3P58 rhk2fg7Ym2Z/UAGkO4gO =hLAt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
