Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian
Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> Tue, 27 January 2015 19:40 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote: > PKIX, OpenPGP, OpenSSH, Kerberos, TLS... Pretty much every existing > IETF security standard I know of to date encodes numbers in big-endian > format. Yet when it comes to running code, OpenSSH and GPG 2.1 are both using the little endian versions of Curve25519 and Ed25519 already... All of the existing material describing Curve25519 and Ed25519 describes it in terms of little endian. Changing the endianness now would break compatibility with all of the existing running code and documentation, and for what? Why are we breaking things and creating a pointless incompatibility? "A foolish consistency..." -- Tony Arcieri
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Dan Brown
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Peter Gutmann
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Michael Clark
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Michael Clark
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Michael Clark
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Peter Gutmann
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Stephen Farrell
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Peter Gutmann
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Stephen Farrell
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Peter Gutmann
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Stephen Farrell
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Salz, Rich
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Derek Atkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Salz, Rich
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Stephen Farrell
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Paul Hoffman
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Derek Atkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Derek Atkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Blumenthal, Uri - 0558 - MITLL
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Paul Hoffman
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Andy Lutomirski
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Stephen Farrell
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Tony Arcieri
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Michael Clark
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Damien Miller
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … D. J. Bernstein
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Watson Ladd