[Cryptography] IETF discussion on new ECC curves.

Jon Callas jon at callas.org
Mon Aug 11 14:03:30 EDT 2014


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On Aug 8, 2014, at 9:28 AM, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:

> Why do we pander to these organisations?  People quote Russian and
> Chinese ciphers, but I don't see why we should inflict the choice on the
> rest of the net just because some organisation thinks they'd like to
> push an agenda.
> 
> It seems to be a logical absurdity.  NIST has a standards suite that
> people think highly of.  So we have to accept NIST.
> 
> So, if we accept NIST, we now must let the Russians GOSTs in.  And the
> Chinese.  ... We're back then at the same place of vanity ciphers, 'cept
> on a national level.  Absurd.

We're already there, Ian.

If you want to do serious work in Russia (banking, government) you must do a number of GOST things. If you want to work in Korea, you need to do SEED. If you want to work in Japan, you don't *have* to do Camellia etc., you can do AES, it's just that they'll pick a product that has those over yours.

	Jon


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