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ECC in OpenPGP

Ian G <iang@iang.org> Tue, 31 August 2010 00:13 UTC

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Open Question!


On 31/08/10 4:56 AM, Werner Koch wrote:

>> That's also why I'm very pleased about the ID on ECC,... having it sooner
>> than later available makes me sleep much better.
>
> That is something more worth to put your energy it.  I'd really like to
> see ECC implemented.


ECC has been around for a while now, and while we don't have the inside 
info on what Certicom/NSA really think, I'm curious whether the open 
crypto community has got an impression as to its relative merits as 
against RSA.

Is it really worth switching horses across to ECC from RSA?  The NSA 
seems to think so...

Let me put it this way, as a hypothetical:  if OpenPGP next-gen had to 
choose between RSA and ECC, only implement one of them, which would we 
choose?

iang

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