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Re: [Cfrg] Curve selection revisited

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 31 July 2014 19:52 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:52:11 -0400
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> There isn't a security argument to switch
> from RSA2048 to curve25519 and I don't see the performance argument as

I'm talking strictly about Curve25519 as a DH protocol.  I am not talking about Ed25519 as a signature mechanism. Sorry for any confusion, but this follows the documents and terminology used by djb.  So to me switching from RSA2K to Curve25519 is like switching from coffee to a bicycle.

	/r$

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