Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document)

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 27 January 2015 14:33 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, "'cfrg@irtf.org'" <cfrg@irtf.org>
Thread-Topic: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document)
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document)
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> Because, as I've already pointed out in an earlier message, if the universal
> standard is big-endian and the vast majority of your potential user base (via
> OpenSSL, not sure about MS CryptoAPI) only does big-endian, then choosing
> a format that's not big-endian is a really bad idea.

OpenSSL does not care.  I speak as a member of the development team.