[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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