[Bug 25839] Curve25519 Named Curve

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

--- Comment #6 from Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com> ---
(In reply to Brian LaMacchia from comment #5)
> I would object to adding only Curve25519 to the list of named curves if
> we're going to open up the NamedCurve list to curves beyond the NIST prime
> curves.  MSR recently published a paper [1] defining new Weierstrass curves
> that are faster than the corresponding NIST curves at the same security
> level and meet all the requirements of the SafeCurves project.  The
> Brainpool curves (which already have an IETF RFC) are also popular in
> non-NIST circles.  So, at a minimum, if we open up the NamedCurve to add
> Curve25519 then we should also add the Brainpool curves and the MSR curves.
> 
> [1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/130

The NamedCurve list has always been open. These would have all the same issues
as I described in Comment 1 - that is, a requirement to have multi-vendor
support (which even the Brainpool curves do not).

As such, their addition is highly likely to be short-lived.

An alternative is to separately spec, as described in Bug 25618, exactly what
these curves are and how they behave, the operations they're valid for, etc.

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Received on Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:26:30 UTC