Reasons to include ECC to our charter
"Dominikus Scherkl" <Dominikus.Scherkl@biodata.com> Thu, 09 August 2001 11:53 UTC
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Subject: Reasons to include ECC to our charter
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 13:33:28 +0200
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Dear openPGP Working Group, Sorry, that I supposed my suggestions for an ECC-extension to the openPGP message format to be property of this WG while it is only a personal draft. Now for my reasons, why this WG should include <draft-scherkl-openpgp-ecc-00.txt> to its charter: I think it is time to fulfill the promise this WG made by reserving space for ECC and ECDSA, if we want to keep this standard as wide used as it is. Long time has gone since we reserved IDs for ECC algorithms and many applications now support ECC but can't provide it in an openPGP context. So they uses other standards like S/MIME or proprietary protocols to provide these algorithms to those who want to enjoy their advantages. Different sets of ECC parameters have now been tested long enough to outsource all trivialy (and many not so trivial) cases that won't provide sufficient security, so ECC becomes a "well known" algortithm. In this light the somewhat slightly advantages "short keys" and "high performance" gain weight due to the lack of disadvantages. Therefore I'm convinced we can include it in the standard without high probability to compromise our security goals. The attached draft is thought to be fully conform with the openPGP format and even some other standards, and it defines all elliptic curves so that no greater changes in the future are expected (it keeps no further gaps in the ECC definiton as some older suggestions have done). If it isn't, I'm sure we can make it with small efford. At all, the openPGP standard can only gain by adding this draft to the charter. Best Regards -- Dominikus Scherkl Biodata Application Security AG mail: Dominikus.Scherkl@Biodata.com
- Reasons to include ECC to our charter Dominikus Scherkl
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Ben Laurie
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Florian Weimer
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Peter Gutmann
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Ben Laurie
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Bodo Moeller
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Ben Laurie
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter John W Noerenberg II
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Jon Callas
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Ben Laurie
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter vedaal
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Jon Callas
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Ben Laurie
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Jon Callas
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter John W Noerenberg II
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Bodo Moeller