Re: [Sks-devel] peer request for pgp.uplinklabs.net

[Andrew Gallagher]

I'm sceptical of the utility of ECC keys personally. They were first proposed 
as a way of reducing work and storage space (because the space of usable ECC 
keys is more compact than the sparsely distributed RSA primes). But they've 
taken so long to catch on that technology advancement has made their original 
justification largely irrelevant (the only exception to my knowledge being 
DNSSEC, where signature length restrictions are still important). And because 
the ECC keyspace is more efficiently packed, it is theoretically *more* 
susceptible to quantum attacks. 

It's notable that the NSA no longer recommends ECC keys. Personally, I'm 
sticking to RSA until post-quantum encryption is ready. :-)

A

> On 31 Aug 2016, at 10:00, Chris Boot <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> GnuPG 2.1 is not available on Debian stable (jessie) at all at the
> moment. And no, 3rd party repos are not the answer for this,
> particularly not for sensitive crypto software.
> 
>> On 31/08/16 09:50, Hillebrand van de Groep wrote:
>> apt-get upgrade or the alternative on your distro helps ;)
>> 
>> On August 31, 2016 10:29:48 AM GMT+02:00, Chris Boot <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>    On 31/08/16 06:12, Steven Noonan wrote:
>> 
>>        Resending this message with a key that isn't revoked. Doh!
>> 
>> 
>>    Except now, because it's an ECC key, nobody can verify your mail unless
>>    they're running GPG 2.1... :-)
>> 
>>    Cheers,
>>    Chris
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> 
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