I think you convinced me. And to think of it, I never did like binary curves. 
:-)

No binary curves for the future. :-)

Tnx!

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From: Tony Arcieri
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 22:32
To: Rene Struik
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TLS] (selection criteria for crypto primitives) Re: sect571r1
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To respond more specifically to your concerns:

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Rene Struik <[email protected]> wrote:
It seems prudent to keep some diversity of the gene pool and not only have 
curves defined over prime curves. Similarly, one should perhaps have some 
diversity of gene pool criteria within the set of recommend curves and not only 
include special primes. Should some problem with a particular subclass show up 
over time, one then at least has other classes available.

Binary curves in particular are showing warning signs of potential future 
security issues:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/310.pdf

I think even if we don't completely pare down the TLS curve portfolio to the 
list I suggested, if nothing else I would like to see binary curves removed.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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