[saag] Fwd: Last Call: <draft-ietf-lwig-curve-representations-12.txt> (Alternative Elliptic Curve Representations) to Informational RFC

Hi all,

I think we've seen this draft discussed previously, but just wanted to
raise visibility that it has entered IETF Last Call.

-Ben

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 06:29:59AM -0700, The IESG wrote:
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> The IESG has received a request from the Light-Weight Implementation Guidance
> WG (lwig) to consider the following document: - 'Alternative Elliptic Curve
> Representations'
>   <draft-ietf-lwig-curve-representations-12.txt> as Informational RFC
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> Abstract
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>    This document specifies how to represent Montgomery curves and
>    (twisted) Edwards curves as curves in short-Weierstrass form and
>    illustrates how this can be used to carry out elliptic curve
>    computations using existing implementations of, e.g., ECDSA and ECDH
>    using NIST prime curves.  We also provide extensive background
>    material that may be useful for implementers of elliptic curve
>    cryptography.
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> The file can be obtained via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lwig-curve-representations/
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