On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you're more familier with its uses than I am. I'm thinking that it > would be nice to have a > struct ecc_curve nettle_curve25519; > with the same operations (ecc_point_mul, etc), but maybe a very > different implementation underneath. That sounds very good. > Is that enough? It's not clear to me how people do signatures with > curve25519, if that's plain ecdsa over a new curve, or something more or > less different? No signatures. It is only used for ECDH. > Will people also want djb's curve25519 function, defined with octet > strings as input and output? I don't know. I am mostly interested for: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-tls-curve25519-04 which includes a test vector. > And about the "safe" curves listed at http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/, > anything beyond curve25519 which is being deployed? M-383, Curve41417, > M-511 or E-521? There is some discussion in CFRG which will probably end-up in a draft but I don't really follow up. regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
