I'd like to bring this up again before the next revision of
the draft. How close are we to consensus on the ECC semantics?
Really?
Indeed I thought there isn't anybody interessted in this...
what a very positive surprise.
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 hal(_at_)finney(_dot_)org wrote:
We have been looking at the ECC issue and have a few comments on the
proposed draft by Dominikus Scherkl and Christoph Fausak.
Broadly speaking it looks very good.
As the IEEE has changed it's proposed standard P1363 to allow
for an additionaly point-compression method with no patents
on it (I worked hardly on this), we should have no problem
with this topic.
But I don't know about the current status of other pending
patents.
I will soon submit an updated version of my (long ago expired)
draft soon...
I'm not against ECC in OpenPGP, but given how close 2440bis is to last
call, perhaps the ECC specification could go in a companion RFC?
This way is what I intended with my draft.
And I think there's no need to hurry, too, but
OpenSSL now has ECC in it, and there is an ECC in TLS draft
being proposed
That's not certain yet, [and the TLS draft is]
... by the same group who did the OpenSSL implementation.
do we realy need to be the last to add ECC to our standard ?
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Dominikus Scherkl
dominikus(_dot_)scherkl(_at_)glueckkanja(_dot_)com