Re: [Cfrg] On the use of Montgomery form curves for key agreement

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Just on this point...

On 02/09/14 02:50, Benjamin Black wrote:
> The various working groups and standards bodies have already answered the
> question of what goes on the wire.

That's not correct. When CFRG finish doing a great job here, then
the TLS WG will have to assign new codepoints for ciphersuites and
there is nothing stopping them defining new encodings at that point
if that's needed. That'd just not be a big deal. And the same is
true of other IETF activities. So what goes on the wire should be
a non-issue for this discussion really.

There is a connection with Russ' point about code re-use, but that's
much better considered in the way Russ framed it, as an implementation
issue and not as a protocol issue. Note that I'm not saying here that
I share Russ' concerns or conclusions, (not having implemented any
ECC myself) but I do think his question is the right one to ask.

S.