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Re: [TLS] Additional Elliptic Curves (Curve25519 etc) for TLS ECDH key agreement

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 13 January 2014 02:17 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org>, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:17:45 -0500
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Additional Elliptic Curves (Curve25519 etc) for TLS ECDH key agreement
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> So, given an opaque<1..2^8-1> in TLS and a desire to plug curve25519 in there, using curve25519's format just seems less surprising and simpler.

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