Re: [openpgp] Curve3617 in OpenPGP? Beyond rfc6637.

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Mon, 21 October 2013 11:20 UTC

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:07, openpgp@brainhub.org said:

>> Nope.  First, there is no released OpenPGP implementation with ECC yet.
>
> One could google for "pgp command line with ecc support" and see a few
> hits. I clearly recall working on one product that was released.

I would not count beta versions as "released" ;-). In any case, it does
not matter because the used curve does not matter RFC-wise.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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