[Bug 25839] Curve25519 Named Curve

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25839

--- Comment #37 from Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com> ---
(In reply to Brian LaMacchia from comment #36)
> Harry,
> 
> I (and others here at MSR) would be happy to supply the relevant text for
> the MSR curves (we've started calling them the NUMS curves, short for
> "nothing up my sleeves").  Would you prefer raw text or diffs on the
> existing Overview-WebCryptoAPI.xml file?

While I realize the question was addressed to Harry:

As editor, proposed texts is preferred over diffs, if only because there are
still 39 open bugs, and diffs will skew.

As an implementer, we would prefer to see support for / description of NUMS
curves as a separate, algorithm-specific specification. To the extent that may
not be possible (eg: as currently, all named curves are normatively REQUIRED
for an implementation to support ECDSA/ECDH), resolving Bug 25618 would block
such effort. Microsoft taking the effort to provide such a specification, and
noting the exact points at which they cannot, would go a significant way to
resolving the concerns of Bug 25618.

>From a process point, such curves invariably represent "substantive changes" (
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#substantive-change ) and
would no doubt cause a restart of either the LC process or another WG draft.
This seems highly undesirable, according to the WG schedule/timelines.

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