On 09/30/2013 08:46 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:

> There has been lately an attempt to avoid the NIST's curves due to
> suspicions about their generation. One of them are the brainpool curves
> at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5639
> which seem to be sponsored by the German BSI. Having them in nettle
> would be a good thing (the same authors are working on standardizing
> these curves in TLS and PKIX).

Similarly, an implementation of Curve25519 [0] would probably also be
useful to have in the library, as it is also under active discussion in
several contexts.

        --dkg

[0] http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/

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