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Re: [TLS] Using Brainpool curves in TLS

"Paul Bakker" <p.j.bakker@offspark.com> Tue, 15 October 2013 10:50 UTC

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From: Paul Bakker <p.j.bakker@offspark.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Using Brainpool curves in TLS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tls-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:tls-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
Peter
> Gutmann
> Sent: dinsdag 15 oktober 2013 12:11
> To: <tls@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLS] Using Brainpool curves in TLS
> 
> Patrick Pelletier <code@funwithsoftware.org> writes:
> >On 10/14/13 8:45 AM, Johannes Merkle wrote:
> >> jaust in case that someone hasn't noticed it: our draft on using the
> >> Brainpool curves in TLS has been published as RFC 7027
> >> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7027.txt
> >
> >Is support available in any TLS libraries yet?  Do we know which
> >libraries are planning on adding support for Brainpool?
> 
> Present in my code but commented out due to lack of anything to test
> against.

Chicken and egg problem :)

Our private repo has brainpool support included for PolarSSL. We are
wrapping up our release right now.
99% certainty: release of Brainpool support within 2 hours.
High certainty on correctness due to the way our library is structured and
our testing framework.

Paul

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