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Re: OpenPGP keys and Suite-B

2008-05-04 09:28:05

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:11:07PM -0700, Andrey Jivsov wrote:

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   C. Higher layers of application will govern compliance
      with Suite B. "ECC in OpenPGP" document will define
      reasonable superset of features required for Suite-B
      or similar government documents, but exact
      specification of the policies to use ECC in OpenPGP
      is out of scope.
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I vote for C.  Keep the policies out of the standard and leave it up
to the implementers.  I'm not against having policies specified, but
I'd rather see them in a different document for use by those people
who need them.  There is precedence here: OpenPGP specifies DSA and
not DSS.

David