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Re: [Cfrg] On the use of Montgomery form curves for key agreement

Benjamin Black <b@b3k.us> Tue, 02 September 2014 21:43 UTC

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From: Benjamin Black <b@b3k.us>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:43:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] On the use of Montgomery form curves for key agreement
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On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Stephen Farrell
> <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
> >
> > Just on this point...
> >
> > On 02/09/14 02:50, Benjamin Black wrote:
> >> The various working groups and standards bodies have already answered
> the
> >> question of what goes on the wire.
> >
> > That's not correct. When CFRG finish doing a great job here, then
> > the TLS WG will have to assign new codepoints for ciphersuites and
> > there is nothing stopping them defining new encodings at that point
> > if that's needed. That'd just not be a big deal. And the same is
> > true of other IETF activities. So what goes on the wire should be
> > a non-issue for this discussion really.
>
> Aren't we replacing SEC1?
>
>
As others have said, no, that is not what I understand to be the goal here.


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