Re: Fwd: New Liaison Statement, "Additional Curves"

I believe this means that we should look into revisiting the additional
CFRG-recommended curves, given various considerations outlined below and
by the Working Group earlier.

I suggest that we host another WebCrypto Working Group meeting next week
or the week following to discuss after mailing list discussion.

    cheers,
         harry


On 03/12/2015 12:16 AM, Harry Halpin wrote:
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: New Liaison Statement, "Additional Curves"
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:10:02 -0700
> From: Liaison Statement Management Tool <lsmt@ietf.org>
> To: hhalpin@w3.org
> 
> Title: Additional Curves
> Submission Date: 2015-03-11
> URL of the IETF Web page: http://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1383/
> 
> From: Security Area (Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>)
> 
> Body: To whom it may concern,
> 
> Harry Halpin from W3C has indicated [1] that it may be
> useful to send a status report about the work on additional
> elliptic curves that is being done in the IETF and IRTF.
> 
> The IETF TLS WG has asked for assistance from the IRTF
> CFRG in the selection of some additional elliptic curves
> with advantageous properties for use in TLS. It is highly
> likely that other IETF work will re-use those curves when
> they are adopted for use in TLS. The TLS WG has previously
> gotten similar advice from CFRG in relation to e.g. the
> chacha algorithm, so this is not an uncommon process in
> the IETF context.
> 
> To date, CFRG has reached consensus on two curves at
> different security levels; one of them is currently
> documented in [2]. Additional work is still required to
> specify cryptographic algorithms using these curves; this
> work is on-going in CFRG.
> 
> We would be happy to see W3C work with the IETF and CFRG
> as this work proceeds to ensure that WebCrypto and TLS
> expose the same curves and, insofar as possible, the same
> algorithms.
> 
> Regards,
> Stephen Farrell & Kathleen Moriarty
> (Security area directors)
> 
> [1] https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06424.html
> [2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-curves/
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