Re: [Cfrg] [TLS] Formal request from TLS WG to CFRG for new elliptic curves

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 21 July 2014 14:47 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>, Benjamin Black <b@b3k.us>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:47:09 -0400
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> TLS 1.2 offered no compelling advantages.

Yes.  TLS 1.3 will offer some good reasons to adopt, from the simplicity, security, privacy, and efficiency areas.  The comparison to TLS 1.2 doesn't hold.

	/r$

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