Re: [TLS] Should we require compressed points

[Jeffrey Walton <[e-mail]>]

> -          The “IPR has expired” statement will require legal validation
> before an implementer can bake point compression into products;
Possible related: http://cr.yp.to/patents/us/6141420.html. The 420
patent expired in July 2014.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Andrei Popov
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> A few considerations:
>
> -          The “IPR has expired” statement will require legal validation
> before an implementer can bake point compression into products;
>
> -          Fewer bytes on the wire/more CPU is a good tradeoff in some
> scenarios, but probably not in every scenario;
>
> -          Requiring support for point compression imposes additional (even
> if relatively minor, in the scale of things) cost for TLS1.3 implementers.
>
>
> What are the reasons for getting rid of uncompressed points?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Andrei