AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter
"Dominikus Scherkl" <Dominikus.Scherkl@biodata.com> Wed, 05 September 2001 10:03 UTC
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Hello. > > > That's precisely the issue - how do we make sure it > > > doesn't assume a patented technology if we don't know > > > what the patents are? I think we agree now that there exists patents, so ECC will not be mandatory part of the standard. But if it's optional it is not essential to know what is patented and what not - it would only be nice to know. > > If someone comes up with a layout that supports ECC > > generically, I'd say go with it. May I remember that it's exactly what I ask for? To go with what I submitted? > > if someone else does the work and convinces us that it's > > generic, I say go for it. What do you dislike in my proposal? What is not generic enough? Till mow I've not read any content-specific critics. > > That's also why I said to do an informational RFC, Ok, I can submit my draft also as an informational RFC. Is it that what you want me to do? > > make a sample implementation, let someone hack up GPG to > > work with it, and we'll see. To experiment wit elliptic curves LiDIA (Library for computational number theory - from the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt) has all you need. Also P1363 is a good point to get implementations of most the algorithms needed for ECC and ECDSA. I think there are already diverse implementations of ECC waiting for a standard to interoperate. > > What will we see? Clearly its possible to do - so what's > interesting about doing it before we can be sure we can use it? We indeed _can_ be sure that we can use it - anyone can use it unless she want to sell it (which may require licencing). Sorry if my words sound too hard. I don't mind. I don't worry about the discussion. Quite the opposit, it's worthwhile. But I would enjoy it very much to have an ECC standard at last. Best regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl Biodata Application Security AG mail: Dominikus.Scherkl@Biodata.com
- AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Dominikus Scherkl
- Re: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Thomas Roessler
- AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Dominikus Scherkl
- Re: AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter John W Noerenberg II
- AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Dominikus Scherkl
- Re: AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Bodo Moeller
- AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Dominikus Scherkl
- AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Dominikus Scherkl
- Re: AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Ben Laurie
- AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Dominikus Scherkl
- Re: AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Ben Laurie
- Re: AW: Reasons to include ECC to our charter Shawn C. Masters