Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: friendliness to low memory implementations (ends on June 3rd)
Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Tue, 26 May 2015 17:48 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: friendliness to low memory implementations (ends on June 3rd)
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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:32:49PM +0000, David Leon Gil wrote: > > Finally, it should be noted that most of the security stuff in IETF > > protocols assume that signatures are "deteched" (TLS > > syntax even has a "macro" for that), and will not work with > > "sealed" signatures. > > I'm curious what the issue is here? (Maybe I don't understand what you mean > by "sealed"...) "Detached" signatures: Sign: PrivKey x Message -> Signature Verify: PubKey x Message x Signature -> Good or Bad. (This is the usual mode) "Sealed" signatures: Sign: Privkey x Message -> Signed message sign_open: Pubkey x Signed message -> Message or Bad. (This is mostly seen in NaCl library[1]) > I'm also not sure why bad decisions from the past should be left > uncorrected: a history, however long, of poor design choices is not a > *reason* to continue to make them. The problem is that trying to "fix" things like TLS to work would be pretty nasty, given that those protocols were designed to use "detached" signatures. [1] I think the stock one offers just this, and most clones have both this and ordinary "detached" ones). -Ilari
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- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Laurens Van Houtven
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Ilari Liusvaara
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- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Watson Ladd
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- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Dan Brown
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- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Nico Williams
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- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… David Leon Gil
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Nico Williams
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- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Tony Arcieri
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Simon Josefsson
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Taylor R Campbell
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL
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- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Taylor R Campbell
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Tom Yu
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Yoav Nir
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Ilari Liusvaara
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- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Rene Struik
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- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Derek Atkins
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Mike Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Yoav Nir
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] testability of signature input/output … Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Simon Josefsson
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Ilari Liusvaara
- [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves - sig… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Tony Arcieri
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: fr… Simon Josefsson
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… D. J. Bernstein
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Tony Arcieri
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… D. J. Bernstein
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Tony Arcieri
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- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Paterson, Kenny
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Björn Edström
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Adam Langley
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Adam Langley
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Paul Hoffman
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Tony Arcieri
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Taylor R Campbell
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Paterson, Kenny
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Taylor R Campbell
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Dan Brown
- Re: [Cfrg] Summary of the poll: Elliptic Curves -… Stephen Farrell