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Re: [TLS] Confirming Consensus on removing RSA key Transport from TLS 1.3

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 27 March 2014 14:16 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Alyssa Rowan <akr@akr.io>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:15:57 -0400
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> I'm wondering: why even keep DHE around at all?

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

> especially curve25519 (which we have a live draft for now

I really like Curve25519, but the current draft is sub-optimal in how it specifies the encoding. If we want the curve for its performance gains, then we should encode things using its native, "most natural" format. Fixing that requires a curve registry, etc.  Hopefully the CFRG or the Security AD's will help with that.

	/r$

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