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

Ben Laurie <ben@links.org> Tue, 15 July 2014 09:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Formal request from TLS WG to CFRG for new elliptic curves
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On 15 July 2014 02:47, Michael Hamburg <mike@shiftleft.org> wrote:
> “Elligator squared” works for everything.  Elligator 2 works (in DJB’s
> proposed PAKE)
> for every prime-field curve of even order.

What is DJB's proposed PAKE?