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Re: [TLS] Additional Elliptic Curves (Curve25519 etc) for TLS ECDH key agreement

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 13 January 2014 04:44 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org>, Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:44:37 -0500
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Additional Elliptic Curves (Curve25519 etc) for TLS ECDH key agreement
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> Just to be clear: curve25519's format, plus a leading byte, (eg. 0x41) to indicate "curve specific encoding"?

Yes.

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