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crypto-ISSUE-56 (EXTENSION): Should algorithms (ECC in particular) be extensible?

http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/track/issues/56

Raised by: Harry Halpin
On product: 

(4)  It is likely that there will soon be a need to extend the list of
curves for ECDH and ECDSA.   How would this affect the design?

Notes Bernstein's new curve (25519) and use of TLS where server offers a unnamed curve.

(Dan Boneh)

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An existing registry was brought up in terms of ECC and performance issues.

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