Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coordinate systems (ends on March 12th)
Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Fri, 06 March 2015 11:56 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coordinate systems (ends on March 12th)
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:31:01PM +0000, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > CFRG chairs are starting discussion of the next topic: > > Q4: draft-irtf-cfrg-curves-01 currently contains curves in both Montgomery > form and Edwards form. The scalar multiplication routine is specified using > Montgomery form (and is specific to Curve25519, which will need to be > changed given our decision to include a higher security level curve). Its > input is a scalar and the u-coordinate of a point on a Montgomery-form > curve; its output is the u-coordinate of a point on a Montgomery-form curve. > The DH function builds on this routine. Do we want to stay with specifying > the inputs and outputs in Montgomery form for these routines? Or do we want > to switch to an alternative curve form and coordinate system for defining > the routines? If so, which form and coordinate system? Montgomery u with infinity-to-zero-fold[1] for both. Basically, offers excellent combination of performance, simplicity and small implementation security gap. [1] A.k.a. what Curve25519 does. The folding actually simplifies things (infinity is no longer special case). -Ilari
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Michael Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… D. J. Bernstein
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Michael Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Ilari Liusvaara
- [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if one… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Watson Ladd
- [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if one… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Michael Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… David Leon Gil
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… Viktor Dukhovni
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… CodesInChaos
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… Salz, Rich
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… CodesInChaos
- Re: [Cfrg] (flaws with Curve25519 DH function, if… Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Alexey Melnikov
- [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coordinat… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Dan Brown
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Tony Arcieri
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Mike Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Nadim Kobeissi
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Adam Langley
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Adam Langley
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Paul Lambert
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Salz, Rich
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Adam Langley
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Michael Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Michael Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Dan Brown
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Paterson, Kenny
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Michael Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Jakob Breier
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Nico Williams
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Jakob Breier
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Ilari Liusvaara
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Michael Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Salz, Rich
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coord… Michael Hamburg