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Re: [TLS] Why are the brainpool curves not allowed in TLS 1.3?

Johannes Merkle <johannes.merkle@secunet.com> Tue, 17 July 2018 16:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Why are the brainpool curves not allowed in TLS 1.3?
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> We've been through this before, e.g.:
> 
> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10271.html
> https://bada55.cr.yp.to/brainpool.html
> 
> ...the latter of which quotes you as saying the repeated digits in the "A"
> and "B" values used in Brainpool seed generation process were "unfortunate".
> 


I am so tired of this polemic discussion. Everything that need to be said in response can be found here:
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg05353.html

Give it a read.

Johannes

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