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Re: [Cfrg] revised requirements for new curves

Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> Thu, 11 September 2014 07:46 UTC

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From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] revised requirements for new curves
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Damien Miller wrote:

> It would help if you defined what you meant by existing RFCs here. Do you
> mean the overarching transport protocol definitions (RFC4253 in the case
> of SSH) or the RFCs that define DH methods specifically (RFC5656 for SSH)?
> latter for better curves/encodings.

Err, vim ate my last paragraph:

For SSH, I support certainly support the former interpretations but would
happily jettison the specific EC RFCs if that was the cost of
safer/faster/better curves and encodings.

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