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Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS

Juho Vähä-Herttua <juhovh@iki.fi> Wed, 16 October 2013 09:53 UTC

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From: Juho Vähä-Herttua <juhovh@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:48:42 +0300
To: "mrex@sap.com" <mrex@sap.com>
Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS
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> On 16.10.2013, at 9.42, mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) wrote:
> 
> Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
>> Any other idea?
> 
> Make it work completely _without_ rfc4492 bloat,
> and similar to DH instead, defining new KeyExchange Methods
> and seperate ciphersuites for it.

I think this would be the best option for Curve25519, just handle it as a special case without trying to force it into the overly complex ECC spec.


Juho

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