Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:21, phonetree...@gmail.com said: I was not able to find anything in the manual about it though. I searched and searched for the details on how to get on with using it, $ gpg2 --expert --gen-key gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION! gpg: It is only intended for

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:14, phonetree...@gmail.com said: Hey, I found the discussion in this newsgroup linked to below. It was last posted to in 2010. Looked like ECC support was coming, but as far as I can tell GPG doesn't support ECC yet. Is it on it's way? It is supported since

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-18 Thread Thomas Demers
...@gnupg.org To: Thomas Demers phonetree...@gmail.com, gnupg-users@gnupg.org Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:00 AM Subject: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support) On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:14, phonetree...@gmail.com said: Hey, I found the discussion in this newsgroup linked to below

Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-17 Thread Thomas Demers
Hey, I found the discussion in this newsgroup linked to below. It was last posted to in 2010. Looked like ECC support was coming, but as far as I can tell GPG doesn't support ECC yet. Is it on it's way? I was just thinking maybe the messages could be short enough yet moderately secure, to

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-17 Thread Johan Wevers
On 17-12-2012 3:14, Thomas Demers wrote: I was just thinking maybe the messages could be short enough yet moderately secure, to send over SMS, due to the shorter key sizes? There is an open source Java application that implements ECC public key encryption with SMS: http://cryptosms.org/ (don't

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-17 Thread gnupg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 17/12/12 16:04, Johan Wevers wrote: I was just thinking maybe the messages could be short enough yet moderately secure, to send over SMS, due to the shorter key sizes? There is an open source Java application that implements ECC public

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?

2010-04-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:16, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jivsov-openpgp-ecc Actually the working group informally agreed on this draft after we changed a few US centric things. It is just a matter of implementing it in GnuPG. Sergi started with that but I

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?

2010-04-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 08:57 +0200, Werner Koch wrote: Actually the working group informally agreed on this draft after we changed a few US centric things. Nice to read. I was just about to reply, that it might make sense to start implementation in gpg even if standardisation has not yet fully

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?

2010-04-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/23/2010 11:24 PM, Faramir wrote: Well, I don't know anything about development plans, I think it is very likely we won't see ecc implemented in GnuPG _unless_ it is included first in OpenPGP standard. If GnuPG implements ecc before it becomes standard, we would get keys that would only

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?

2010-04-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 markus reichelt escribió: * Alexander Murauer segler_a...@web.de wrote: is there any plan to get ecc in mainstream gnupg? most stuff i found about gnupg and ecc is outdated. does somebody know something about this? search the archives of

Elliptic curves in gnupg status?

2010-04-21 Thread Alexander Murauer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i recently read about ecc (elliptic curves crypt) after googling, i found this: http://www.calcurco.cat/eccGnuPG/descobj.en.html is there any plan to get ecc in mainstream gnupg? most stuff i found about gnupg and ecc is outdated. does somebody