Re: [Cfrg] FourQ draft now available

[Michael StJohns <[e-mail]>]

Hi -

I hesitate to be the one to say this, and I'm not above suggestive names 
myself, but could we please use a name that doesn't give the impression 
that the IETF is full of college age frat boys?  Say maybe: Q4D?  I 
understand the giggle factor of the name and the implied raised finger 
given to all other curves, but still - this will probably be more 
problem than benefit.

I'm not going to further argue one way or another on this.  But it 
needed to be at least mentioned.

Later, Mike


On 9/22/2016 10:05 AM, Watson Ladd wrote:
> Dear CFRG,
>
> We would like to announce draft-ladd-cfrg-4q-00, which presents a
> high-speed Diffie-Hellman key agreement based on the elliptic curve
> FourQ. This scheme is significantly faster than Curve25519, especially
> when using endomorphisms. For example, SUPERCOP tests indicate that
> one Curve25519 shared secret computation is performed in approximately
> 156,000 Haswell cycles; our analogous tests with FourQlib indicate
> that a shared secret computation is performed in only 56,000 Haswell
> cycles (i.e., 2.8 times faster). In some applications, the cost of
> public-key operations remains considerable and FourQ is capable of
> reducing it, particularly in embedded devices and busy servers.
>
> We hope this draft sees its way to an RFC soon.
>
> Sincerely,
> Watson Ladd, Patrick Longa, Richard Barnes
>
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