Re: [TLS] software supporting arbitrary elliptic curves

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 23 November 2011 07:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] software supporting arbitrary elliptic curves
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> writes:

>Is there any software client and/or server side that supports the
>arbitrary_explicit_prime_curves option of RFC4492?

For my code, I don't support it and have no intention to.  It's a complete
mess.

Peter.