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Re: [Cfrg] ECC reboot (Was: When's the decision?)

Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Thu, 16 October 2014 18:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] ECC reboot (Was: When's the decision?)
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 06:38:55PM +0100, Alyssa Rowan wrote:
> 
> It seems to me at this stage that the requirements of the
> existing-hardware stakeholders of the Brainpool may be not only
> orthogonal, but actually (potentially) in direct opposition to the
> requirements of the software stakeholders - and further their
> requirements may (perhaps) already be satisfied by the Brainpool curves?

I think the requirements are in direct opposition.

And I know no reason why existing Brainpool curves wouldn't be usable
for "high-security" hardware.

Also, I think for other hardware, it doesn't really matter, since
special primes are apparently neither advantage or disadvantage.


-Ilari

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