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Re: [Cfrg] Recommending secp256k1 in FIPS 186-5

Scott Arciszewski <scott@paragonie.com> Thu, 19 December 2019 17:07 UTC

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From: Scott Arciszewski <scott@paragonie.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:07:36 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Recommending secp256k1 in FIPS 186-5
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I also oppose its recommendation.

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 12:06 PM Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL <
uri@ll.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:30 AM Dan Burnett <daniel.burnett@consensys..net
> <daniel.burnett@consensys.net>> wrote:
>
> My company and others are concerned about the lack of endorsement for
> secp256k1 in this standard and have drafted a request for its addition.[2]
> We  would welcome any comments and/or support from this group and/or any of
> its members (directly in the Google Doc linked below).  All comments are
> welcome, including those arguing against this request :)
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> Unless I'm mistaken, no IETF protocols use secp256k1 either, nor has the
> CFRG ever recommended it.
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> And there’s no reason that I can see to add such a recommendation.
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