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Re: [TLS] Why are the brainpool curves not allowed in TLS 1.3?

Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> Wed, 18 July 2018 11:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Why are the brainpool curves not allowed in TLS 1.3?
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On Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:52:08 CEST Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> writes:
> >Well, I note that the text also says "or have had very little usage,"
> 
> When the Brainpool-with-TLS RFC was published, several implementers
> announced that they'd added support within 24 hours of the RFC appearing
> (in some cases determined by time zones).
> 
> I think that was the fastest uptake of any security RFC I've ever seen.

just because implementations added them, doesn't mean they were deployed

last time I performed scan looking for them, they haven't crossed 10%, 4 years 
*after* the RFC7027 was published:

https://securitypitfalls.wordpress.com/2017/04/


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