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[IPsec] ANSI X9.62 Groups
>---Lewis <pseudonym@acm.org> <http://www.cs.umass.edu/~lmccarth> wrote:
> I'm in favor of adding curves over field sizes of 163 and 239.
> However I oppose including the specific curves defined in ANSI.
> (Are these defns. from NCITS, or X9.62, or some other group?)
> Those curves already present relatively rich targets for
> precomputation attacks by virtue of their inclusion in an ANSI
> standard. Let's put the IPSEC eggs in separate baskets by
> generating some fresh curves for IKE with the requisite field sizes.
The curves found in X9.62 are examples listed in an informative appendix.
The curves that I posted earlier are none of these.
Thank you.
jog
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