Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Wed 13/May/2020 11:54:12 +0200 Damien Goutte-Gattat via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users > wrote: > >> I guess that Curve 25519 is mentioned in the IETF standard, isn't it? > > Not yet. Officially, only the NIST P-256, P-384, and

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 13 May 2020 10:54, Damien Goutte-Gattat said: > Not yet. Officially, only the NIST P-256, P-384, and P-521 curves are > part of the standard (since RFC 6637). The first mention of Curve RFC-6637 allows for arbitrary curves because curves are specified using an ASN.1 OID. So for example t

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 13 May 2020 15:09, Stefan Claas said: > defaults to cv25519... (and does not need to generate a UID for privacy > reasons, simply fantastic!) And willfully violating the the standard. Not requiring a user id was bug in PGP 2 and fixed more than 25 years about with PGP 2.6.3in. Shalom-S

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Stefan Claas
Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2020 15:09, Stefan Claas said: > > > defaults to cv25519... (and does not need to generate a UID for > > privacy reasons, simply fantastic!) > > And willfully violating the the standard. Not requiring a user id was > bug in PGP 2 and fixed more than 25 years

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> With all due respect, do you think when Hagrid and even good old SKS > key servers supports this feature that people would not applaud you if > you would consider including it in GnuPG too and reflecting it in the > respective RFC? Speaking for myself, I have "rfc4880" in my gpg.conf for damned

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Stefan Claas
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > With all due respect, do you think when Hagrid and even good old SKS > > key servers supports this feature that people would not applaud you > > if you would consider including it in GnuPG too and reflecting it > > in the respective RFC? > > Speaking for myself, I hav

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 14 May 2020, at 23:42, Stefan Claas wrote: > > When you work in compliance mode it should be IHMO possible that people > wishing to communicate with you (from foreign countries) and may have a > different opinion about privacy, GnuPG should accept such public keys, > without using extra par

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Stefan Claas
MFPA wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi > > > On Thursday 14 May 2020 at 11:41:00 PM, in > , Stefan Claas wrote:- > > > > > GnuPG should accept > > such public keys, > > without using extra parameters and that you can > > easily add them to your > > key ring,

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Stefan Claas
Andrew Gallagher wrote: > > > On 14 May 2020, at 23:42, Stefan Claas wrote: > > > > When you work in compliance mode it should be IHMO possible that > > people wishing to communicate with you (from foreign countries) and > > may have a different opinion about privacy, GnuPG should accept > > s

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Stefan Claas
Stefan Claas wrote: > MFPA wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Hi > > > > > > On Thursday 14 May 2020 at 11:41:00 PM, in > > , Stefan Claas wrote:- > > > > > > > > > GnuPG should accept > > > such public keys, > > > without using extra parameters and t

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread MFPA via Gnupg-users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 14 May 2020 at 11:41:00 PM, in , Stefan Claas wrote:- > GnuPG should accept > such public keys, > without using extra parameters and that you can > easily add them to your > key ring, with a simple label, thus not revealing the >

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> When you work in compliance mode it should be IHMO possible that people > wishing to communicate with you (from foreign countries) and may have a > different opinion about privacy, Sure. And if they're important enough for me to justify breaking compliance, I am perfectly capable of removing th