[OTR-dev] RSA signatures again

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, Ian Goldberg wrote:

>> 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?
>
> I'm more willing to discuss some variant of ECDSA (Ed25519?).  But one
> of my big concerns is support in the variety of languages for which
> there already exist libotr implementations.

ECC is still problematic patent-wise. It is getting better, but it is
still not supported in current releases of Fedora and RHEL.

Paul