[OTR-dev] RSA signatures again

[Jurre van Bergen]

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On 08/23/2013 10:54 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> Ian, what's your take on this? Should we support it?
>
> If so, I'd like to add the keytype number for RSA in the upcoming OTR
> draft.
>
> Paul
>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:42:50
>> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
>> To: otr-dev at lists.cypherpunks.ca
>> Subject: Re: [OTR-dev] RSA signatures again
>>
>> On 15.8.2013, at 19.00, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>>> I was planning to use libotr for a project where I'd need both
"normal" asymmetric encryption (RSA probably) and OTR-like encryption.
The problem is that I was hoping to use a single public key for both
uses, but OTR uses only DSA and I can't do encryption with it. My next
thought was to modify libotr to support RSA signatures as well, but
since I'm not really a crypto expert I thought I'd ask here first if
that's even a good idea? Would it be as simple as changing the
DSA-specific code to RSA or are there some deeper problems to solve as well?
>>
>> At least it seems to work..
>>
>>
>

Allow me to hijack this thread a bit.. what happened to the idea of
swapping out DSA for ECC? Wouldn't it make more sense to include ECC and
not RSA? Especially with the look at the future?

All the best,
Jurre

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