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Re: [Cfrg] Call for adoption: draft-yonezawa-pairing-friendly-curves

Kobi Gurkan <kobigurk@gmail.com> Wed, 11 September 2019 10:47 UTC

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From: Kobi Gurkan <kobigurk@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:46:30 +0300
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To: "Riad S. Wahby" <rsw@jfet.org>
Cc: Paterson Kenneth <kenny.paterson@inf.ethz.ch>, "cfrg@ietf.org" <cfrg@ietf.org>, "draft-yonezawa-pairing-friendly-curves.authors@ietf.org" <draft-yonezawa-pairing-friendly-curves.authors@ietf.org>, "cfrg-chairs@ietf.org" <cfrg-chairs@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Call for adoption: draft-yonezawa-pairing-friendly-curves
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Riad makes a good point. Maybe a SNARK-specific draft could be a better
place.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 8:04 AM Riad S. Wahby <rsw@jfet.org> wrote:

> Paterson  Kenneth <kenny.paterson@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yonezawa-pairing-friendly-curves/
> >
> > Please give your views on whether this document should be adopted
> > as a CFRG draft, and if so, whether you'd be willing to help work
> > on it/review it.
>
> I support adoption of this draft, and I'm happy to help review it
> and to make sure it's well synchronized with the hash-to-curve and
> BLS signatures efforts (just as Armando has already said).
>
> But I am a bit wary about mission creep. In particular I think we
> should want pretty strong justification before adding specialized
> constructions like the ZEXE curves and the Coda cycle. I'd prefer
> for those to live in their own document(s) since probably they're
> unnecessary (and add needless cost) for most applications.
>
> -=rsw
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