[Cryptech Tech] 25519 implementation

Joachim Strömbergson joachim at secworks.se
Wed May 7 08:20:03 UTC 2014


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Aloha!

Randy Bush wrote:
> the cfrg interim was pretty shocking to me, with serious, seemingly
> only politically motivated, attempts to de-position 25519.  but, if
> by accident sanity prevails, my take is that 25519 will be the csrg 
> recommendation to the ietf for tls and dnssec (and bgpsec).  so yes,
> it would be very good to have.

A bit concerning. The discussions on @TLS seems more open to Curve25519
and friends. There are several drafts including Curve25519 in TLS and
seems to have traction. The big discussion seems to be on Curve25519 vs
EdCurve25519. And big endian vs little endian.

There seems to be good traction for chacha and salsa20 too.

What was the cfrg interim consensus on curves - what are they suggesting
to use? NIST curves?

BTW: OpenBSD seems to bring in French curves into libressl. Mon dieu!

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Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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