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Re: [TLS] FFDHE and SHOULDs on usage

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 13 November 2014 20:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] FFDHE and SHOULDs on usage
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On 13 November 2014 12:19, Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> wrote:
> If we really wanted to allow explicitly specified ("PYOG") FFDHE groups as a
> fallback, we should create the equivalent of RFC 4492's
> arbitrary_explicit_prime_curves NamedCurve. (We don't actually want that, I
> hope.)

I teased that idea in the meeting, but it's a bad idea ;)

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