Re: [TLS] The PAKE question and PSK

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 02 April 2014 19:37 UTC

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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org> wrote:
>   Check out Appendix A of draft-ietf-tls-pwd-04. Do you know of
> any running code that implements TLS ciphersuites that perform EKE
> with Elligator curves?

And in constant time.  Still, we're inching closer to having all the
pieces.  I did find one liberally-licensed C implementation of
Elligator just now, and an unlicensed implementation in Go.  We may
soon well have enough Elligator implementations to permit interop
testing and widespread implementation of EKE w/ Elligator.  And, of
course, one can always write one's own implementation.

Nico
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