Re: Curve25519 and/or Curve41417 and/or Alternatives in Gecko/Firefox (was Re: Road to RC4-free web (the case for YouTube without RC4))

2014-08-08 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote: [snip] An other alternative is using curve25519. It's also not standardized yet, but at this time it seems more likely to be standardized first.

Curve25519 and/or Curve41417 and/or Alternatives in Gecko/Firefox (was Re: Road to RC4-free web (the case for YouTube without RC4))

2014-07-10 Thread Brian Smith
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote: [snip] An other alternative is using curve25519. It's also not standardized yet, but at this time it seems more likely to be standardized first. Thanks for bringing up curve25519. I'd like to share a recent paper written by

Re: Curve25519 and/or Curve41417 and/or Alternatives in Gecko/Firefox (was Re: Road to RC4-free web (the case for YouTube without RC4))

2014-07-10 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:57:56AM -0700, Brian Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote: [snip] An other alternative is using curve25519. It's also not standardized yet, but at this time it seems more likely to be standardized first. Thanks for

Re: Curve25519 and/or Curve41417 and/or Alternatives in Gecko/Firefox (was Re: Road to RC4-free web (the case for YouTube without RC4))

2014-07-10 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
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