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

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org> Mon, 13 January 2014 02:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Additional Elliptic Curves (Curve25519 etc) for TLS ECDH key agreement
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On 13/01/2014 03:17, Salz, Rich wrote:
>> So, given an opaque<1..2^8-1> in TLS and a desire to plug curve25519 in
>> there, using curve25519's format just seems less surprising and simpler.
> 
> +1
> 
Just to be clear: curve25519's format, plus a leading byte, (eg. 0x41) to
indicate "curve specific encoding"?

Manuel.

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