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

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> Thu, 23 January 2014 20:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS and Additional Curves in TLS
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>>>>> "MP" == Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org> writes:

MP> I have no objection to changing the byte ordering if nobody speaks
MP> up for big-endian in the next few days.

Internet-endian is the better choice.

Coding is thusly is not a problem, and as the tls libs -- or their
number-crunching libs -- gain support they can code to expect 'net-
endian keys.

-JimC
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