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Re: [TLS] Should we require compressed points

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 21 October 2014 15:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Should we require compressed points
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On 21 October 2014 08:01, Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> wrote:
> How does that impact possibility of adding more "exotic" curves like
> curve25519/Ed25519
> in some later point in time?

I'd have thought that this only applies to the existing registrations.
New registrations can define a proprietary format.

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