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Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document)

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sun, 25 January 2015 21:52 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Andrey Jivsov <crypto@brainhub.org>, "cfrg@irtf.org" <cfrg@irtf.org>
Thread-Topic: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document)
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document)
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> I don't have strong opinion regarding the format, primarily because there is
> no efficiency argument here.

Perhaps.  So if there is no efficiency, why break existing deployments?  So far I've heard tradition, and I've heard common code re-use.

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