security/gnupg: No ecdh/ecdsa capability

[Matthieu Volat]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 08:30:46 -0700 (PDT)
Beeblebrox <zaphod at berentweb.com> wrote:

> Hello. 
> Is there a particular reason that security/gnupg on FreeBSD does not include
> the ecdh/ecdsa algorithm?

Elliptic curves algorithms will be supported in GnuPG from version 2.1, which have been beta only for quite a while, so everything is normal.

> 
> $ gpg2 --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.26
> libgcrypt 1.6.1
> ......
> Supported algorithms:
> Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
>         CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
> 
> Whereas, it should be:  Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA
> 
> I doubt this is an "export restriction" issue, when
> a. Linux distros have this enabled on gnupg and
> b. openssl has support for it
> This is available in gnupg since 9/2010 (GnuPG 2.1.0  / libgcrypt 1.5.0)
> 
> * Is the reason that code has somehow not been merged
> (https://code.google.com/p/gnupg-ecc/source/browse/#svn/branches/gpg2ecc)?
> * I have not tried security/pgp - I could switch if that has ecdsa enabled?
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> 
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