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Re: [Cfrg] Curve manipulation, revisited

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 30 December 2014 17:05 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:05:20 -0500
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> BTW Rich, are the OpenSSL team planning to add support for whatever new
> curve(s) and associated signature algorithm(s) CFRG blesses?

I expect so, as part of TLS 1.3.  Hopefully that won't take too long to happen

> Assuming yes, please will you aim to make it possible for a server to register 4
> certs/keypairs - RSA, DSA, NIST ECC and CFRG ECC - for the same hostname
> (rather than only permit RSA + DSA + 1 ECC option)?

We need to provide a way to let smart applications pick which key/cert to use.

Further discussion on this topic is probably better off at openssl-dev@openssl.org

	/r$

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