On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:48 AM Douglas Stebila <doug...@stebila.ca> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2020, at 11:24 PM, Rob Sayre <say...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Would it be ok to add a rationale to the "Goals" section around backward
> compatibility? I'm not sure how the compatibility points will interact with
> downgrade attacks.
>
> For now I don't think we're envisioning anything different on downgrade
> compared to current DH group negotiation.  For example, a client that
> prefers curve25519 but also is willing to use nistp256 should be able to
> talk to a server that only supports nistp256.
>

This idea is what my question concerns. I'm not sure there should be a
negotiation of that sort, but the WG can sort that out.

thanks,
Rob
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