Fwd: ECC - how does it compare

2007-11-01 Thread Hardeep Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 29, 2007 11:05 PM Subject: ECC - how does it compare To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Hi All I recently looked at software called 'seccure' which is available for linux. Its a tool for public key encryption using ECC rather than prime number factoring. http://www.nsa.gov/ia

Re: ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-30 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Hardeep Singh schrieb: Its a tool for public key encryption using ECC rather than prime number factoring. AFAIK, some of the really efficient algorithms for the required math are patented. cu, Sven ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-30 Thread Remco Post
Sven Radde wrote: Hi! Hardeep Singh schrieb: Its a tool for public key encryption using ECC rather than prime number factoring. AFAIK, some of the really efficient algorithms for the required math are patented. in that case these patents are only valid inside the US, since no EU country

ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Hardeep Singh
Hi All I recently looked at software called 'seccure' which is available for linux. Its a tool for public key encryption using ECC rather than prime number factoring. http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_elliptic_curve.cfm Here NSA is making a case for ECC. One advantage that does seem to

Re: ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Hardeep Singh wrote: What do you all think about this? Should we start building an ECC WOT? :-) As soon as it gets added to the OpenPGP RFC, then we should. Until then, it's premature. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Remco Post
Robert J. Hansen wrote: Hardeep Singh wrote: What do you all think about this? Should we start building an ECC WOT? :-) As soon as it gets added to the OpenPGP RFC, then we should. Until then, it's premature. So actually, you could, but you need to start lobbying to get it added to the