20 Dec
2010
20 Dec
'10
10:37 p.m.
Hey Niels and other Nettle folks--
Have you given any thought about adding elliptic curve cryptography to nettle as another public-key algorithm?
There are many references for elliptic curve online (i confess i'm not up on the implementation details), including:
http://www.secg.org/?action=docs_secg
and OpenSSL, libecc, sks-ecc, and libcrypto++ have free implementations that might be worth perusing for reference or for comparison / test suites:
http://libecc.sourceforge.net/
It would be great to have a GPL-compatible, C implementation of ECC, and nettle seems like a good fit.
Any thoughts, plans, or concerns about this?
--dkg