Re: Disabling all uses of elliptical curves

2016-05-11 Thread Martin Thomson
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Hubert Kario wrote: > I haven't tested it, but I don't think that will stop NSS trusting RSA > certificates signed by ECC CAs. There are plenty of things that NSS will still do with ECC if you disable ECC cipher suites. That's for sure. If

Re: Cipher suits, signature algorithms, curves in Firefox

2016-05-11 Thread Hubert Kario
On Friday 06 May 2016 10:34:37 Zoogtfyz wrote: > > the larger key size helps w.r.t. quantum computers. > > If quantum computers are currently on the level of breaking AES-128, > then they are on the level of breaking any asymmetric cryptography > (RSA, DHE or ECDHE key exchange) we are using -

Re: Disabling all uses of elliptical curves

2016-05-11 Thread Hubert Kario
On Saturday 30 April 2016 09:05:27 Martin Thomson wrote: > At the TLS layer, you can disable all suites that require ECC. I haven't tested it, but I don't think that will stop NSS trusting RSA certificates signed by ECC CAs. > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Franziskus Kiefer