On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 08:14:59AM +0100, Anders Rundgren wrote: > On 2015-12-23 07:46, Ilari Liusvaara wrote: > > >>* Section 2: If you don't like the terms crv and x, perhaps you should > >>seriously think about using different names for these fields. That is the > >>feeling I am getting from the Note in this section. > > > >The draft originally did use different names, but various people in the > >WG wanted those to be "crv" and "x", damn what that impiles about the > >meaning. > > Just for my (some primitive) understanding: The targeted algorithms do not > represent curves of some kind?
None of Ed25519, Ed25519ph, Ed448, Ed448ph, X25519 and X448 is a curve, those all are diffie-hellman algorithms or signature algorithms. > If not why calling the draft *-curves-*? Those algorithms are the pracical applications of the CFRG ECC work to JOSE (the direct curves don't have much use[1]) [1] I do know only one spec (HTTP auth type) that could use the raw curves themselves. -Ilari _______________________________________________ jose mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jose
