Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 5/4] glep-0063: Allow ECC keys

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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W dniu śro, 04.07.2018 o godzinie 09∶49 +0200, użytkownik Kristian
Fiskerstrand napisał:
> On 07/04/2018 09:22 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > +   c. ECC
> 
> Likely should not blanket accept ECC for various reasons. For one thing
> the curves we likely would want to accept are not standardized, so you
> have interoperability issues.
> 
> The hardware situation is improving somewhat on these, so that is less
> of a concern now than back in the day.
> 
> But there aren't really very strong arguments in favor of ecc, and in
> the case of quantum computation there less protection offered from ecc
> due to smaller key sizes.
> 
> We also keep gnupg 1.4 in tree that does not, and will not, support ecc.

Well, we have developers using ECC (Curve 25519, to be specific).
I don't really know enough about this to judge but we either need to
allow at least this, or convince those devs to change to RSA.

Would one of the following wordings be better:

a) ECC, Curve 25519[, ...]

b) ECC, curves supported by GnuPG version ...

Alternatively, do you have other suggestions?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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