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Re: [Cfrg] Curve manipulation, revisited

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 30 December 2014 17:47 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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> No, please no. An "interim solution" signature algorithm is stillborn. Few
> people would want to take the operational effort to create *and maintain*
> keys for an interim solution when the current solution (P256) is good enough.

It's important to not mix key exchange and signature.  My interest, and arguably the primary TLS WG interest, is in the former, not the latter.

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