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Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS and Additional Curves in TLS

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org> Thu, 23 January 2014 11:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Curve25519 in TLS and Additional Curves in TLS
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On 23/01/2014 12:03, Rob Stradling wrote:
> OK, that makes sense.
> 
I'm glad you agree.

> BTW, since other NamedCurves may be defined in the future that "are not 
> designed to be used in signatures", how about changing...
> 
>    "Servers MUST NOT select an ECDHE_ECDSA ciphersuite if the only common
>     curve is Curve25519."
> 
> ...to...
> 
>    "Servers MUST NOT select an ECDHE_ECDSA ciphersuite if there are no
>     common curves suitable for ECDSA."
> 
> ?
> 
Yes, absolutely.

Manuel.

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