Re: [Cfrg] Handling invalid points

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sat, 22 November 2014 13:50 UTC

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On 22/11/14 12:51, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> Also keep in mind for what CFRG is giving recommendations.

>From the point of view of someone (still!) waiting on CFRG to
pick some curves, this thread seems a bit odd.

I would hope CFRG would first pick something and then document
the inevitable corner cases, not argue in such detail about a set
of corner cases that don't really distinguish anything usefully
different about the different options.

So... please pick. If that doesn't happen soon, I am concerned
that implementers will just go ahead and use whatever they prefer
and the IETF will just have to deal with that.

I'm also not seeing really new arguments on the list recently,
and am seeing some repetition, so isn't it now time to just get
the selections done and move on to the next good bit of work (and
I also do see those starting to queue up.)

Thanks,
S.