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Re: [TLS] RFC4492bis - Removing ECDH

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> Mon, 12 January 2015 09:13 UTC

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From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC4492bis - Removing ECDH
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----- Original Message -----
> Hi.
> 
> I realize this was sent right in the middle of the holiday season, so I’ll
> give it another try.
> Please have a look at the pull request and post comments to the list about
> whether you’re fine with removing ECDH.

I'm of course for it.

Another request for this document, would be to remove the following text:
"This is the byte string representation of an elliptic curve
      point following the conversion routine in Section 4.3.6 of ANSI
      X9.62 [7]. "
and replace it with a publicly available reference, or just describe the 
conversion. It is an important part of the protocol and unfortunately 
requires 100$ to read.

regards,
Nikos

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