eccGnuPG

[Simon Josefsson]

Sergi Blanch i Torné <sbt at megacceso.com> writes:

> 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.

Ok.  Other than the channel attack, are you aware of any other known
problems with the patch?

I'd be willing to help with the libgcrypt port if you want.

>> 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.

That's good to know, thanks.

/Simon