Re: [TLS] Strawman on EdDSA/Ed25519 in TLS

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Mon, 01 June 2015 10:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Strawman on EdDSA/Ed25519 in TLS
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On 29/05/15 22:18, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Peter Bowen <pzbowen@gmail.com> writes:
<snip>
>> I'll donate a short OID to the cause if that will help move things
>> forward.  We have the 1.3.187 arc which is only three bytes DER.  If
>> someone has a smaller arc (third node would be 127 or lower) and would
>> offer an OID from their arc we can shave off another couple of bytes.
>
> Anyone?  I have 1.3.6.1.4.1.11591 but it is much longer.
>
> If you can allocate one OID for PKIX-EdDSA and one for PKIX-Ed25519 we
> have two values to work with for doing a PKIX EdDSA or Ed25519 draft.
> It is not clear to me which approach is best, and if you have room for
> two OIDs let have two different from the start in case people want to
> experiment with both.
>
> Thank you for thinking of saving bytes here! :-)
>
> /Simon

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Rob Stradling
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