I think, like James, I see the sacrificial lamb approach. There is
benefit in watching what they are up to. If a measurable push comes out
of the IAB's CFRG, then this is a clear signal to avoid that like the
plague.
Pushing ECC patents. Pushing NIST curves. Clear signals!
Without those s
On 2014-01-07 13:41, Adam Back wrote:
You also assessed that the IETF/IRTF's "open processes" are an
adequate safeguard against NSA subversion, even by a group chair. I'm
not sure of that. I worry about soft forms of sabotage like making
Internet crypto hard to implement securely, and hard to d
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 09:36:29AM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
NSA's Kevin Igoe writes, on the semi-moderated c...@irtf.org list:
[...] impact the Certicom patents have on the use of newer families of
curves, such as Edwards curves.
[...] patent FUD. [...] used to argue against switching to
