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Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - poll on security levels (ends on February 17th)

Benjamin Beurdouche <benjamin.beurdouche@inria.fr> Tue, 10 February 2015 22:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - poll on security levels (ends on February 17th)
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> On 10 Feb 2015, at 11:52, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> wrote:
> 
> CFRG chairs are starting a poll, containing 2 initial questions:
> 
> Q1: Should CFRG recommend a curve at the 192-bit security level?

No

> Q2: Should CFRG recommend a curve at the 256-bit security level?

Yes

> Answering Yes/No to each of these would suffice.
> 
> Once this first set of issues is resolved, we will move to choices of prime
> at the selected security level(s), if any. After that we will be
> discussing implementation specifics and coordinate systems for
> Diffie-Hellman. We will then make decisions on signature schemes.
> Please don't discuss any of these future topics at this time.
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