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Re: ECC in OpenPGP proposal, second revision

2008-03-10 15:44:02

Here is the updated revision of the proposal that incorporates most requested corrections that was possible to make without breaking or severely affecting interoperability.

  http://brainhub.googlepages.com/2008-draft-ietf-openpgp-ecc-pre-7.txt

The same document in other formats:
  http://brainhub.googlepages.com/pgp .

Here is the partial list of changes:

1. Make curve ID 1 MUST, ID 3 SHOULD.
2. MUST SHA2-256 and SHOULD implement SHA2-512
3. Note on Suite-B / OpenPGP incompatibility
4. MUST support ECDSA and and ECDH
5. MDC MUST, MUST use Iterated and Salted S2K
6. Note on matching relative strength specified in section 12.
7. Removed open reference to hashes (removed "or its successor").
8. SHOULD use stronger algorithm, while maintaining RFC4880 rules

Thank you again for your comments.