[Cryptography] FW: [Cfrg] Formal request from TLS WG to CFRG for new elliptic curves
Salz, Rich
rsalz at akamai.com
Fri Jul 18 10:28:23 EDT 2014
Some might find this interesting. It is from the outgoing co-chair of the CFRG. The CFRG is the crypto research group of the IERF, the “research arm” of the IETF. More info at https://irtf.org/cfrg
From: Igoe, Kevin M. [mailto:kmigoe at nsa.gov]
I can say a few words about the AES-256/P-384 security disparity, since it is largely
the fault of Suite B. Suite B had wanted to use AES-192/P-384, but a survey of
available hardware implementations showed that many has skipped over AES-192
and gone to AES-256. Hence AES-256 was put into Suite B rather than the preferred
AES-192. But since 192-bits of security was the intended security goal, we kept P-384.
/r$
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