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Re: [Cfrg] Recommending secp256k1 in FIPS 186-5

Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> Thu, 19 December 2019 17:03 UTC

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From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:03:07 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Recommending secp256k1 in FIPS 186-5
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:30 AM Dan Burnett <daniel.burnett@consensys.net>
wrote:

> My company and others are concerned about the lack of endorsement for
> secp256k1 in this standard and have drafted a request for its addition.[2]
> We would welcome any comments and/or support from this group and/or any of
> its members (directly in the Google Doc linked below).  All comments are
> welcome, including those arguing against this request :)
>

Unless I'm mistaken, no IETF protocols use secp256k1 either, nor has the
CFRG ever recommended it.

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Tony Arcieri

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