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ECC in OpenPGP

2010-08-30 19:24:16

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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