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Re: [Cfrg] Citing specs in specs

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sat, 01 March 2014 23:17 UTC

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On Mar 1, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bernstein, Daniel. "Curve25519:New Diffie-Hellman Speed Records".
> Appears in Moti Yung, Yevgeniy Dodis, Aggelos Kiayias, Tal Malkin
> Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2006, 9th International Conference on
> Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography, New York, NY, USA,
> April 24-26, 2006, Proceedings. Springer 2006 Lecture Notes in
> Computer Science ISBN 3-540-33851-9
> 
> This comes straight from Dan Bernstein's bibliography.
> 
> Alternatively one could put the paragraph that defines Curve25519 into
> the draft.
> 
> I don't see a problem with either one of these alternatives.

Both look fine to me, the latter being better.

--Paul Hoffman

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