>>>>> "NM" == Niels Möller <[email protected]> writes:

NM> So first question is naming; what's the most established names for
NM> these curves? It seems gnutls uses, e.g., "SECP256R1", I guess we
NM> can just follow that (rather than, e.g, "P-256", as it's called in
NM> the DSA spec fips-186-3)?

RFC 6239 (Suite B Crypto Suites for SSH) has this to say about naming:

,----< excerpt from rfc6239.txt >
|  Curve        NIST name        SECG name     OID [SEC2]
|  ---------------------------------------------------------------
|  P-256        nistp256         secp256r1     1.2.840.10045.3.1.7
|  P-384        nistp384         secp384r1     1.3.132.0.34
`----

(Based on [SEC2], I presume the next line would be:

   ?-???        nistp521         secp521r1     1.3.132.0.35
)

So it looks liek the secp...r1 names are as good as any.

-JimC
-- 
James Cloos <[email protected]>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
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