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

Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> Tue, 10 February 2015 16:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - poll on security levels (ends on February 17th)
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Alexey Melnikov
<alexey.melnikov@isode.com> wrote:
> Q1: Should CFRG recommend a curve at the 192-bit security level?

No.

> Q2: Should CFRG recommend a curve at the 256-bit security level?

No.

Nor do I believe that 192 or 256 are useful stops on the security
scale for ECC primitives.


Cheers

AGL

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