Hey, Except if someone has a real need for it, I would favour removing p571 and keep secp521r1 as the maximum …
Cheers, B. > On 15 Jul 2015, at 20:13, Dave Garrett <davemgarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In PR 188 for TLS 1.3, I pruned down the allowed elliptic curves to just the > ones actually used. (per Sean's recommendation) One point of discussion > between Eric and myself: sect571r1. I'm in favor of keeping it, but not very > strongly. Eric suggested removing it. It does get some use, though quite a > bit less than the others. > > The main reason I think this warrants discussion is that dropping it would > drop the maximum bits here, which whilst obviously not the only factor to > take into account, will possibly not be desired by some. The main arguments > for ditching is probably that it might not be safely implemented and nobody > actually needs something this big. > > So, should it stay or should it go now? Opinions? > > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > TLS mailing list > TLS@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
