Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-26 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 26-01-2011 20:29, Avi escribió: > I believe Werner had mentioned that the 1.x version would > continue to be supported due to its enhanced portability, but I > could be misremembering. Can someone "official" comment as to > the viability of the 1.

Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-26 Thread Avi
From: Christoph Anton Mitterer < > christoph.anton.mitte...@physik.uni-muenchen.de> > To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:07:08 +0100 > Subject: Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 15:37 -0500, Avi wrote: > > As

Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 15:37 -0500, Avi wrote: > As someone who uses GnuPG on a USB stick under Windows, I sincerely > hope that elliptical curves get added to the 1.4 trunk. I know this won't happen,... but I'd rather see a roadmap to phase out 1.x... Maintaining to branches is not only a big eff

Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-26 Thread Grant Olson
On 1/26/11 3:37 PM, Avi wrote: > As someone who uses GnuPG on a USB stick under Windows, I sincerely hope > that elliptical curves get added to the 1.4 trunk. > > --Avi > That was completely uninformed speculation on my part. But I still think that like any new standard and technology, even

Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-26 Thread Avi
As someone who uses GnuPG on a USB stick under Windows, I sincerely hope that elliptical curves get added to the 1.4 trunk. --Avi User:Avraham pub 3072D/F80E29F9 1/30/2009 Avi (Wikimedia-related key) Primary key fingerprint: 167C 063F 7981 A1F6 71EC ABAA 0D62 B019 F80E 29F9

Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-26 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 26, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:21, k...@grant-olson.net said: > >> (Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with using 1.4; I just doubt >> ECC will be back-ported.) > > Well, at some point in time we might need to do that. If there are many > ECC ke

Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-26 Thread Johan Wevers
Op 26-1-2011 11:02, Werner Koch schreef: >> (Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with using 1.4; I just doubt >> ECC will be back-ported.) > > Well, at some point in time we might need to do that. If there are many > ECC keys in use there is probably a need for ECC for server applications

Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:21, k...@grant-olson.net said: > (Not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with using 1.4; I just doubt > ECC will be back-ported.) Well, at some point in time we might need to do that. If there are many ECC keys in use there is probably a need for ECC for server applica

Re: Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-25 Thread Grant Olson
On 01/25/2011 07:59 PM, Joseph Ziff wrote: > Just out of curiosity (this might be the wrong mailing list for this so > I apologize in advance if that is the case), are there any plans for > implementing any other encryption/signing algorithms in GPG and if so > what are they? I think it's really t

Future plans for implementation of other algorithms

2011-01-25 Thread Joseph Ziff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Just out of curiosity (this might be the wrong mailing list for this so I apologize in advance if that is the case), are there any plans for implementing any other encryption/signing algorithms in GPG and if so what are they? - -- Joseph Ziff , , T