The IESG has approved the following document: - 'ECC in OpenPGP' (draft-jivsov-openpgp-ecc-14.txt) as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Sean Turner. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jivsov-openpgp-ecc/ Technical Summary This document proposes an Elliptic Curve Cryptography extension to the OpenPGP public key format and specifies three Elliptic Curves that enjoy broad support by other standards, including NIST standards. The document aims to standardize an optimal but narrow set of parameters for best interoperability and it does so within the framework it defines that can be expanded in the future to allow more choices. Working Group Summary This document has been discussed and reviewed by members of the concluded OpenPGP WG. The OpenPGP protocol has an reserved algorithm ID for ECC; this document suggests the use the participants of the of this algorithm ID. There was a consensus between the participants of the discussion to use this document as the specification for the use of ECC in OpenPGP. Document Quality There are two independent implementations of this ECC extension to OpenPGP: The Symantec PGP software implements it, and a beta version of the Free Software Foundation's GnuPG software fully implements it. Personnel Wener Koch (wk@gnupg.org) is the Document Shepherd. Sean Turner (turners@ieca.com) is the responsible AD. RFC Editor Note Please add the following to the end of the last sentence in the abstract: and these Elliptic Curves
