Re: [Cfrg] RFC 7748 on Elliptic Curves for Security

Excellent work, all! This is one of the more important RFCs that the IRTF has published, and will have a direct impact on Internet user privacy.

Lars

On 2016-01-23, at 1:27, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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>        RFC 7748
> 
>        Title:      Elliptic Curves for Security
>        Author:     A. Langley, M. Hamburg, S. Turner
>        Status:     Informational
>        Stream:     IRTF
>        Date:       January 2016
>        Mailbox:    agl@google.com,
>                    mike@shiftleft.org,
>                    sean@sn3rd.com
>        Pages:      22
>        Characters: 39298
>        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
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>        I-D Tag:    draft-irtf-cfrg-curves-11.txt
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>        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7748
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>        DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7748
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> This memo specifies two elliptic curves over prime fields that offer
> a high level of practical security in cryptographic applications,
> including Transport Layer Security (TLS).  These curves are intended
> to operate at the ~128-bit and ~224-bit security level, respectively,
> and are generated deterministically based on a list of required
> properties.
> 
> This document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group of the IRTF.
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Re: [Cfrg] RFC 7748 on Elliptic Curves for Security

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