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Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS and Additional Curves in TLS

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 28 January 2014 14:57 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com>, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:56:58 -0500
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Cc: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS and Additional Curves in TLS
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> I have not seen a compelling *technical* reason for TLS to disobey the currently existing, currently implemented Curve25519 standard by reversing the bytes.

Right.



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