Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - poll on security levels (ends on February 17th)

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Hi,
To get some closure on the consensus poll:

On 10/02/2015 10:52, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> CFRG chairs are starting a poll, containing 2 initial questions:
>
> Q1: Should CFRG recommend a curve at the 192-bit security level?
About 25% of people responded that they want to work on this (slightly 
more if we count people stating that as a second preference).
Chairs are still discussing what should be done on this.

> Q2: Should CFRG recommend a curve at the 256-bit security level?
About 54% of respondents want to work on this. So chairs think that a 
curve at this level should be included as a recommendation to IETF.

Best Regards,
Alexey, on behalf of chairs.
> Answering Yes/No to each of these would suffice.
>
> Once this first set of issues is resolved, we will move to choices of 
> prime
> at the selected security level(s), if any. After that we will be
> discussing implementation specifics and coordinate systems for
> Diffie-Hellman. We will then make decisions on signature schemes.
> Please don't discuss any of these future topics at this time.