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Re: RFS: seccure



On (30/07/06 12:17), Ricardo Mones wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:00:28 +0100
> James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net> wrote:
> 
> > Dear mentors,
> > 
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "seccure".
>   Would be interesting to point some differences, improvements or even
> disadvantages respect other similar ECC tools in the archive like sks-ecc.
> 

I have re-uploaded with the following description.

Description: tools for using algorithms based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)
 The seccure toolset implements a selection of asymmetric algorithms
 based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). In particular, it offers
 public key encryption / decryption and signature generation /
 verification. ECC schemes offer a much better key size to security
 ratio than classical systems (RSA, DSA). Keys are short enough to make
 direct specification of keys on the command line possible (sometimes
 this is more convenient than the management of PGP-like key
 rings). seccure builds on this feature and therefore is the tool of
 choice whenever lightweight asymmetric cryptography -- independent of
 key servers, revocation certificates, the Web of Trust, or even
 configuration files -- is required.
 .
 The seccure toolset allows you to select the curve that the operations are
 performed on, so that different cryptographic needs can be supported. This
 is currently the only ECC package in Debian GNU/Linux to offer a choice of
 curves and MAC lengths.
 .
 It is currently missing some of the functionality of the sks-ecc package,
 including encrypting to multiple recipients at once, and creating different
 signature formats.

I hope this is better.

James

[P.S. I neglected to sign the original RFS, so I sign this one instead.]

-- 
  James Westby
  jw+debian@jameswestby.net
  http://jameswestby.net/

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