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Re: [TLS] [Cfrg] Citing specs in specs

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 05 March 2014 12:57 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: David McGrew <mcgrew@cisco.com>, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:57:04 -0500
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> "ECPoint.point differs from the definition of public keys in [Curve25519] in two ways: ..."

> "Again, in line with [RFC4492] and as a departure from the convention chosen in [Curve25519], the x coordinate is converted to a byte  string using big endian order. ..."

Some of us consider this a defect in the I-D and would prefer to see an ECPoint registry that allowed the 'native' little endian format used by 25519.  That cuts the issues of concern by 50% :)

	/r$

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