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Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-00.txt

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Mon, 15 June 2015 21:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-00.txt
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Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> writes:

>> "This section defines a new point format suitable to encode Curve25519
>> public keys, as well as an identifier to negotiate this new format in
>> TLS, and includes guidance on their use."
>>
>> Is this format going to be the chosen one for TLS 1.3? Because TLS 1.3
>> can't negotiate point formats for ECDHE.
>>
>> Also, I don't see the value of trying to negotiate the point format,
>> and I think that the negotiation will act as an implementation error
>> source.
>
>
> I would suggest claiming that this point format is "uncompressed" and the
> only point format for Curve25519.

I'm happy to do that.  Anyone against?  If I understand correctly, I
would drop most of the montgomery_x_le ECPointFormat registration and
instead say: use ECPointFormat "uncompressed" and send the public-key
formatted as follows [...].

/Simon

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