Re: Curve 25519 to Working Draft [was Re: CR transition update - some quick editorial updates?]

On 11/20/2014 01:37 AM, Harry Halpin wrote:
> Virginie,
> 
> Can you do a call for consensus (with usual 2 week waiting time) for
> Curve 25519 to go to Working Draft?
> 
> I'll install an Editor's Draft in W3C space and do the boiler-plate
> work, but it would be good if the WG had any concerns/bugs to voice them
> now.
> 
> I think the general extensibility mechanism and the addition of Curve
> 25519 extension spec means I think we've resolved as "LATER" the Curve
> 25519 bug in the Web Cryptography API's move to Candidate Recommendation.

Note that a new URI has been crafted for Trevor's Editor's Draft that
will be referred to in our Disposition of Comments for CR.

http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/WebCryptoCurve25519/Curve25519-WebCrypto.html

   cheers,
      harry

> 
>     cheers,
>         harry
> 
> 
> On 11/19/2014 07:23 PM, Trevor Perrin wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 1) Elliptic Curve bugs re NUMS and Curve 25519
>>> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25839
>>>
>>> We should probably add this Editor's Note to the 3.1.1
>>>
>>> "We expect the WebCrypto specification to support whatever alternative
>>> named curves outside of the NIST elliptic curves are recommended by CFRG
>>> either in the main specification or as an extension specification."
>>>
>>> We also need to put Trevor's Draft in W3C Space and probably at same
>>> time as CR as a Working Draft and list it in extensions here:
>>>
>>>  I've pinged him about this, I imagine it can happen by end of the week.
>>
>> In response to above:
>>
>> I'd be happy to see this draft advance as a Working Draft, and to let
>> the staff contact work on adding any appropriate boilerplate,
>> publication date, etc.  (I'll be too busy / travelling this week and
>> the next to do such work myself).
>>
>> Trevor
>>
>

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