Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - poll on specific curve around 256bit work factor (ends on February 23rd)

[Aaron Zauner <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

For the record:

255: Preferred.
414: Acceptable.
448: Preferred.
521: Acceptable.

Consider the remaining alternatives as a clear: No.


With regard to the short off-topic discussion on Moore's Law. Most
people seem to reference this paper but have never read it or long
forgotten what it states. Reduction in cost of production (thus consumer
products) is a big theme in the original work [0]; rarely mentioned when
this paper is referenced. In the HPC community there's been consensus
that "moore's law is coming to an end" for quite some time. The US DoE
has been working on an outline for "exascale computing" for quite some
time -- main concerns are actually green computing, IO bottlenecks,
alternative computing architectures (e.g. Harvard) and use of
specialized hardware over general purpose hardware. Might be interesting
to some [1] [2] [3].

Aaron

[0] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fussell/courses/cs352h/papers/moore.pdf
[1]
http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ascr/ascac/pdf/meetings/20140210/Top10reportFEB14.pdf
[2] http://science.energy.gov/ascr/news-and-resources/program-documents/
[3] http://exascale.org/