Re: elliptic curve in nettle?

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg@fifthhorseman.net wrote:

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://www.cryptopp.com/ ... Any thoughts, plans, or concerns about this?

All (or nearly all) Crypto++ files are in public domain, without licensing restrictions. But its a c++ library.

Jeff