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

Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org> Thu, 19 February 2015 09:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - poll on security levels (ends on February 17th)
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Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> wrote:
> TLS WG chairs would prefer to get recommendations about 128 and 256 levels
> at the same time, if possible.

Why?

And is that a TLS WG consensus, or just the opinion of the TLS WG chairs?

Cheers,
Brian

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