[PATCH] curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org key exchange proposal
Nicolai
nicolai-openssh at chocolatine.org
Thu Nov 7 09:33:48 EST 2013
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Aris Adamantiadis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For my part I chose Curve25519 because it's there since a while and had
> time to be studied. The other curves you mention have all been
> introduced in 2013.
Additional good reasons are that Curve25519 is used elsewhere in real
things: DNSCurve, Tor (newer versions), DNSCrypt, ZeroMQ. Curve25519
is also in CurveCP, MinimaLT, and will be added to Google's new QUIC
protocol.
Big thanks to Aris for this!
Nicolai
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