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        RFC 6637

        Title:      Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in 
                    OpenPGP 
        Author:     A. Jivsov
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       June 2012
        Mailbox:    Andrey_Jivsov@symantec.com
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 31532
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-jivsov-openpgp-ecc-14.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6637.txt

This document defines an Elliptic Curve Cryptography extension to
the OpenPGP public key format and specifies three Elliptic Curves
that enjoy broad support by other standards, including standards
published by the US National Institute of Standards and
Technology.  The document specifies the conventions for
interoperability between compliant OpenPGP implementations that
make use of this extension and these Elliptic Curves.  
[STANDARDS-TRACK]

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
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