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Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS and Additional Curves in TLS

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 02 April 2014 19:26 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Alyssa Rowan <akr@akr.io>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:26:03 -0400
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Nice summary.

I think we had consensus around using the little-endian point format, but this requires some more overhead (a new ECPoint type and an IANA registry) that nobody has stepped up to do yet.

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