eccGnuPG

[Alon Bar-Lev]

This has been partially one.
Does not work yet.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159870

I will be happy if anyone has some thought regarding this.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

On 3/21/07, Sergi Blanch i Torné <sbt at megacceso.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 17:51, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > Some people have asked me about ECC support in GnuTLS, and your work
> > would provide a good foundation for that.  What is the status of this
> > work?  Any chance ECC support will be integrated into libgcrypt?
>
> The bad think is that I am not full time dedicated on a ecc. As fas as I can,
> I want to port the code to libgcrypt (and also do a patch for gpg2). But also
> there are some channel attack that I am working to prevent.
>
> > I am aware of some patent concerns, but I'm actively trying to get
> > more information on the situation.
>
> There exist patens over some algorithms, but not the ones that are used on
> this module. At less, I think, it doesn't use anything patented. ECDSA to
> sign and EC_Diffie-Hellman scheme plus an AES256 and a SHA256 are the used
> algorithms.
>
> /Sergi.
>
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