Re: BoF at FOSDEM ?

2014-02-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014 14:13, mar...@martinpaljak.net said: Too bad I missed. Where did you get with the ECC discussion? I merely reported about the status and that I think it is better to wait a few weeks until the I-D for the new curves is more complete. Then we can start to implement that.

Re: BoF at FOSDEM ?

2014-02-03 Thread arne renkema-padmos
On 01/02/14 14:13, Martin Paljak wrote: Too bad I missed. Where did you get with the ECC discussion? Correct me if I'm wrong but I understand that 2.1 is planned for the end of summer, and that currently there is a wait for all the haggling and standardisation work around ECC (see

openpgp card and basiccard RNG

2014-02-03 Thread Kostantinos Koukopoulos
Hello, Aparrently the OpenPGP card is based on BasicCard [1] and from the BasicCard FAQ [2] I read: For Enhanced BasicCards, the card has no hardware generator. The Enhanced BasicCards contain a unique manufacturing number which cannot be read from outside the card. The Rnd function uses this

making the X.509 infrastructure available for OpenPGP

2014-02-03 Thread Hauke Laging
Hello, I would like to say first that my X.509 understanding is orders of magnitude lower that that of OpenPGP. So I hope this makes sense to you... This idea came to my mind while I was wondering why several CAs offer free (but rather useless...) certificates for X.509 but not for OpenPGP.