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Re: [TLS] WG: New Version Notification for draft-bruckert-brainpool-for-tls13-00.txt

Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> Mon, 03 September 2018 11:31 UTC

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On Sunday, 2 September 2018 19:18:19 CEST Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 04:12:31PM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote:
> > > We submitted an Internet Draft defining the usage of the Brainpool
> > > Curves for TLS 1.3.
> > 
> > I believe it's not desirable to have a maximally large number of
> > algorithms specified for TLS. To the contrary, I believe it'd be good
> > to keep things as simple as possible and limit choices if there's no
> > good reason for them.
> 
> Agreed.

I'm against adding those curves to cryptographic libraries for the already 
stated reasons.

That being said, people asking for code point registrations shouldn't be 
forbidden from getting them – we may consider the reasons why they want them 
to be misguided or wrong – but we won't promote interoperability between 
implementations by forcing people to squat code points.
-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 115, 612 00  Brno, Czech Republic

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