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Re: [Cfrg] MAY use specified curves

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Tue, 09 September 2014 20:08 UTC

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Hiya,

On 09/09/14 20:38, Dan Brown wrote:
>  My 
> proposal is for CFRG to recommend PKIX reverting to something more the 
> previous state.

IMO CFRG should not be in the business of making such statements.
That is not an IRTF thing, but an IETF thing as you more or less
said yourself:

> That would be a formatting issue though, not a curve choice issue.

If you think the IETF ought take that road, then the saag list is
the place to suggest that in general or if there is no current
relevant working group.

If there is a specific protocol that has an active working group,
then its list is the place to go. The PKIX WG is closed, but the
list is still open and gets traffic so you could start there I guess.

But as I said, my impression is that folks mostly prefer named
curves and similar these days so I'm not sure you'd get that much
traction, but you should take this up on an IETF list if you
think it useful.

S.

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