Re: [Cfrg] generic curves ... RE: big-endian short-Weierstrass please

"Dan Harkins" <dharkins@lounge.org> Fri, 30 January 2015 09:07 UTC

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:07:40 -0800
From: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] generic curves ... RE: big-endian short-Weierstrass please
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On Thu, January 29, 2015 3:40 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> If you want to debate the wisdom of what the TLS WG is doing, it is best
> done in the TLS WG, not here. Of course, you should read the threads on
> the list where the WG had strong consensus to remove generic curves. If
> you want to change their minds on that topic, doing so on the CFRG mailing
> list is probably not effective, and gets in the way of us making progress
> on what the TLS WG asked us to do.

  You are neither the chairman of this group nor the parliamentarian;
stop telling people what to do.

  Dan.