Re: undefined MAY algorithm example (Re: Question and note)

[Uri Blumenthal <uri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Back says:
> I just read the spec end to end, and I think I found an example of the
> sort of problem Tom is referring to, from:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-openpgp-formats-05.txt
> ............... For example (as Tom has been pointing out) it says
> Elliptic Curve.........
> PROBLEM: no definition of any Elliptic Curve parameters.

Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem is a VERY nice idea. Unfortunately,
despite the fac that its inventors intentionally did not patent
it, it is vastly covered by various patents. I heard that even
some eliptic curves have been patented! [How stupid was I not
to patent myself a few millions of primes. :-]

For at least some of those patents there appears to be no
freeware route (i.e. you pay for licening regardless).

So I doubt that open-pgp will be able to include ECC.
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Regards,
Uri		uri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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