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Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS

Dan Brown <dbrown@certicom.com> Thu, 12 September 2013 14:44 UTC

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From: Dan Brown <dbrown@certicom.com>
To: "'rob.stradling@comodo.com'" <rob.stradling@comodo.com>, "'simon@josefsson.org'" <simon@josefsson.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tls-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:tls-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Rob Stradling
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:52 AM
> 
> Unless NIST can prove that their curves aren't backdoored, I think it's

[DB] Five NIST curves are Koblitz curves, which are not backdoored.

> likely that some folks (rightly or wrongly) will want to do ECDHE-ECDSA
> without touching the NIST curves at all.  What options do they have?
> 

[DB] Koblitz curves.

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