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Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-00.txt

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 15 June 2015 16:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-00.txt
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On 15 June 2015 at 06:03, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> It seems that provided there's also a named_curve for ECDSA
> that matches the certificate, then one might use 25519 for a key
> exchange that is signed with ECDSA.

Perhaps I wasn't clear about this.

I'm saying that we need one named_curve for 25519 + ECDH and another
for Ec25519 + "ECDSA".

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