Re: [DNSOP] [perpass] draft-hzhwm-start-tls-for-dns-00: Starting TLS over DNS

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@gmail.com> Sat, 15 February 2014 18:38 UTC

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Cherry-picking the worst of the assertions...


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> wrote:

> has mr. bernstein's Curve25519 (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519) been explicitly validated by
> other crypto experts?


Yes.


> last i knew he was the only one claiming it was
> correct and strong enough for production use.


It has been widely discussed with no papers showing any flaws at all.

The crypto is not in question: the rest of the protocol is.

--Paul Hoffman