Rene Struik schrieb am 16.07.2015 um 03:42:
> Dear colleagues:
>
> It seems prudent to keep some diversity of the gene pool and not only have
> curves defined over prime curves. Similarly,
> one should perhaps have some diversity of gene pool criteria within the set
> of recommend curves and not
Hi,
> There's a very strong reason against this: It creates complexity. More
> opportunities for attacks, more fragmentation of the ecosystem. I
> believe I speak for a lot of people here when I say that fewer
> algorithms is better and having more algs "just because" is not a good
> reason. With
> We've been through this before, e.g.:
>
> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10271.html
> https://bada55.cr.yp.to/brainpool.html
>
> ...the latter of which quotes you as saying the repeated digits in the "A"
> and "B" values used in Brainpool seed generation process were "un
Eric Rescorla schrieb am 17.07.2018 um 17:47:
> We've
> generally decided to limit the number of algorithms we recommend (the
> Recommended) column in the registry. I have trouble seeing any situation in
> which we would have these curves as Recommended. And so "at hand" really
> means (1) code poi
>> Code points for pre-1.3 were assigned, and they are invalid for TLS 1.3.
>> Those “you should not send these for 1.3” could be re-used for TLS 1.3, if
>> that was desired.
>
> Yes this makes sense. And I think that they should, documented as something
> other than “Recommended”.
>
I still
