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Re: [Cfrg] generic curves ... RE: big-endian short-Weierstrass please

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Mon, 02 February 2015 22:29 UTC

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From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
To: Dan Brown <dbrown@certicom.com>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] generic curves ... RE: big-endian short-Weierstrass please
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:09:18PM +0000, Dan Brown wrote:
> New thread name ... should have done so earlier.
> 
> When TLS asked CFRG for new curves, I didn't interpret that to mean that 
> generic curves would be banned. Banishing generic curves adds slightly more 
> weight to the TLS request, because users cannot easily opt out of the chosen 
> few elite curves.

If it's unclear what the TLS WG wants exactly, maybe it's best to
ask them?

My understanding is that they want fixed named curves.


Kurt

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