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Re: [TLS] ChaCha20 + Poly1305 in TLS

Dr Stephen Henson <lists@drh-consultancy.co.uk> Thu, 12 September 2013 15:51 UTC

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On 11/09/2013 15:08, Adam Langley wrote:
> 
> I would like to support only ECDHE-ECDSA at this point but RSA has
> significant inertia because of the CA system. On reflection, it does
> seem reasonable that some implementations might not want the weight of
> an ECC implementation given that they have to have
> multiplicative-modexp for RSA anyway. So I've spun version -01 with
> with a DHE_RSA ciphersuite too.
> 

Thanks. Some organisations are also ultra cautious about possible ECC patent
issues and wont use it at all.

Steve.
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