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Re: [TLS] sect571r1

Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> Wed, 15 July 2015 21:42 UTC

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On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 05:39:26 pm Dave Garrett wrote:
> It's the most used of the rarely used curves.

This statement is potentially confusing, actually, because in comparison to P256 _everything_ is rarely used when it comes to ECDHE.


Dave

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