[Cfrg] Preference for focus on EC rather than PAKE

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Fri, 10 October 2014 02:23 UTC

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Subject: [Cfrg] Preference for focus on EC rather than PAKE
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Greetings. This RG has historically done a poor job of working on multiple disparate items at the same time. For some of us, the need for the RG to come up with concise, understandable response to the request from the TLS WG (which will also affect many other WGs) is about an order of magnitude higher than the need to evaluate PAKEs. The latter can wait until the higher-importance item is finished.

--Paul Hoffman