On 26-03-2015 9:59, Mike Ingle wrote: > Is this just a backward > compatibility thing, or is the security of ECC keys not fully trusted yet?
The buzz about Dual_EC_DRBG made it clear that it is possible to design curves where the designers have access to data that allows them to compromise the system. Wether the curves used in a given implementation are suspected to possibly have such a weakness is a matter of debate. I didn't check the status of this for the curves used in GnuPG 2.1. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
