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Re: [Cfrg] New names for draft-ladd-safecurves

Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> Tue, 21 January 2014 15:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] New names for draft-ladd-safecurves
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Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>:

I spent time talking to Dan and Tanja this weekend at ShmooCon about this
> sort of thing and I think that our agreement was that names like "Curve
> 255-19" (which covers both Curve25519 and Ed25519) or "Curve 414-17" (for
> the curve formerly known as Curve3617) made sense.


Yes, it does. This would fix the single major flaw of Curve25519 --
concatenating base-10 numbers to spell out a tuple just doesn't make sense
(except as a trap, so that if anyone reads it out as "twenty-five thousand
..." you'll know they don't know what they're saying).  I also don't really
like having whitespace in those names, so I'd prefer "Curve-255-19" over
"Curve 255-19".

("Curve" isn't very descriptive, but I've yet to see a more descriptive
name for this curve that is actually helpful.)

Bodo

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