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

Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> Thu, 23 January 2014 06:42 UTC

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From: Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS and Additional Curves in TLS
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
>> * The draft still specifies a big-endian point format
>
> Yes, this is a serious flaw, arguably reason enough to "vote no"

Endinanness is never a good reason to vote no.

Please read http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt if you do not believe this.

What you are complaining about takes three lines of C to fix.
Let's not reignite a holy war that the IETF settled long ago.
Sincerely,
Watson Ladd
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