Re: [TLS] Early code point assignments for 25519/448 curves

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

On 23/11/15 14:21, Sean Turner wrote:
> All,
> 
> We’ve received an early code point assignment for the following 4

Is the word "request" missing above? Either that or I'm forgetting
more than I suspected:-)

> (four) elliptic curve points that will go in the "Supported Groups"
> Registry:
> 
> // ECDH functions. ecdh_x25519 ecdh_x448
> 
> // Signature curves. eddsa_ed25519 eddsa_ed448

I think 3 of the above are clearly fine now.

I'd suggest holding off on eddsa_ed448 for a while until CFRG
are done, but maybe establishing now that there is consensus in
the WG to allocate that as soon as CFRG are done (where "done"
means folks can implement and interop, not that the RFCs are
issued).

AFAIK the state of play within CFRG on that is that the chairs
plan to do a few polls for the couple of remaining issues in
a few weeks, so we're not talking about a major delay and to
be fair, CFRG recently have delivered more or less when they
said they would.

My reason to suggest this is just in case CFRG discover some
last minute stuff. While burning a code-point for that wouldn't
be a problem, we'd be better off without the confusion.

But if (the chairs tell me) there's clear consensus for some
other action here, I'll consider myself in the rough and go with
that.

Cheers,
S.


> 
> These points will be included in the following 2 (two) drafts: 
> draft-ietf-tls-tls13 draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis.
> 
> Early code points are permitted in the “Supported Groups” registry
> and the chairs (that’s us) need to determine whether there is support
> for these assignments.  Some input has already been received and
> those people do not need to respond again to this call, but we’d like
> to hear from others whether they support early code point assignment
> for these curves.  If you do not please state why.  We’re looking for
> input by November 30th.
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