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

Olafur Gudmundsson <ogud@ogud.com> Wed, 18 February 2015 14:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - poll on security levels (ends on February 17th)
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> On Feb 18, 2015, at 5:44 AM, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Alexey, 

Question about order 128 and 256 at the same time or first 128 and then 256 ? 

	Olafur

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