[Bug 141290] Re: Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) patch for gnupg-1.4

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

As 'gnupg' (which is the 1.4 branch) is considered to be in maintenance
mode and main development happens in gnupg2, I don't think this request
is appropriate for this package. It would be for gnupg2, but as the log
notes the patch has been merged upstream so will enter the package in
due course so there also no further action is necessary.

** Changed in: gnupg (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) patch for gnupg-1.4

Status in “gnupg” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hello Ubuntu team!

  I'm not sure whether you've heard of Elliptic Curve Cryptography [1],
  but it is a new source for generating hashes, which are much harder to
  crack. Key lengths can be much shorter for the same level of security,
  eg. 192 bits with ECC instead of 1024 bits + for regular crypto. I
  would really like to see this available in Ubuntu.

  It's still an inofficial patch, but it works nicely under my second-
  preferred distro, Gentoo, for which it is available [2] for 1.4.7 by
  simply activating a compile-time USE flag for over a year. It is a
  drop-in replacement for the regular gnupg, since it just offers a few
  extra features.

  The patch itself is available at here [3] for gnupg version 1.4.x,
  which is the default in Ubuntu anyway. The patch is also mentioned on
  the [1] Wikipedia page.

  Please integrate this as a package, eg. gnupg-ecc.

  [1] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography
  [2] http://www.gentoo-portage.com/app-crypt/gnupg
  [3] http://www.calcurco.cat/eccGnuPG/

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