ECC support is in GnuPG 2.1+, not v2 in general

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
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Konstantin Ryabitsev 2018-01-25 16:23:43 -05:00
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##### RSA vs. ECC subkeys ##### RSA vs. ECC subkeys
GnuPG v2 has full support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography, with ability to GnuPG 2.1 and later has full support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography, with
combine ECC subkeys with traditional RSA master keys. The main upside of ECC ability to combine ECC subkeys with traditional RSA master keys. The main
cryptography is that it is much faster computationally and creates much upside of ECC cryptography is that it is much faster computationally and
smaller signatures when compared byte for byte with 2048+ bit RSA keys. creates much smaller signatures when compared byte for byte with 2048+ bit RSA
keys.
Unless you plan on using a smartcard device that does not support ECC Unless you plan on using a smartcard device that does not support ECC
operations, we recommend that you create an ECC signing subkey for your kernel operations, we recommend that you create an ECC signing subkey for your kernel