Re: [TLS] Adding Curve448-Goldilocks to draft-ietf-tls-curve25519

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Mon, 29 June 2015 11:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Adding Curve448-Goldilocks to draft-ietf-tls-curve25519
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On 29/06/15 11:55, Yoav Nir wrote:
> Yes!
>
> CFRG has not chosen a higher-security curve yet,

Haven't they?

On 25th Feb, Alexey Melnikov (CFRG co-chair) wrote:
"So CFRG prefers curve 448." [1]


[1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06398.html

> but that one seems to
> have the most support, and nobody’s claimed that it is problematic in
> any way (other than “not as many bits as some other curve”). So I think
> we can move forward with this.
>
> Yoav
>
>> On Jun 29, 2015, at 6:16 AM, Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net
>> <mailto:joe@salowey.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have an objection to adding Curve448-Goldilocks
>> to draft-ietf-tls-curve25519?  Please respond by July 5, 2015.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
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