Re: [TLS] RFC4492bis - Removing ECDH

Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 12 January 2015 22:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC4492bis - Removing ECDH
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OK. Seeing as there was some support and no objection, the ECDH stuff is removed.

I’ll post version -01 in a minute.

Yoav

> On Jan 7, 2015, at 4:23 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I realize this was sent right in the middle of the holiday season, so I’ll give it another try.
> 
> Please have a look at the pull request and post comments to the list about whether you’re fine with removing ECDH.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Yoav
> 
>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 12:29 AM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com <mailto:ynir.ietf@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> I’ve created pulll request #2 for removing references to ECDH (static elliptic curve key) key exchange and ciphersuites.
>> 
>> https://github.com/tlswg/rfc4492bis/pull/2 <https://github.com/tlswg/rfc4492bis/pull/2>
>> 
>> Nikos suggested it here: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg14555.html <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg14555.html>
>> Yes, there are other suggestions there, but I’d like to take them one by one.
>> 
>> Let me know what you think
>> 
>> Yoav
>> 
>