On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> wrote: >> I would like to hear what others think about this, including what >> people think Gecko should do. > > I think it looks promosing. But like the paper indicates it needs > time for other people to review it before it's going to see any > adoption. Curve25519 on the other hand is almost 10 years old > now, and provides the security I currently think is at a good > level, and is fast. So I think we should try to adopt curve25519 > and later see if we should adopt Curve41417.
I mostly agree with Kurt; everyone is getting into curve25519 these days, and extra performance is always welcome. Maybe trying to leap over curve25519 is not a great idea if compatibility with everyone else is important. Cheers, Dirkjan -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
