[TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X25519 significant bit.
Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> Tue, 22 December 2015 18:52 UTC
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Subject: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X25519 significant bit.
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Curve25519, as the name suggests, operates on 255-bit numbers. When encoded as bytes, there's obviously a 256th bit that needs to be specified. Curve25519 implementations didn't set the bit but did used to vary on how they parsed it. Some would take a 256-bit number and reduce it while others would ignore the bit completely. However, I believe that implementations have converged on ignoring it. That behaviour is specified in draft-irtf-cfrg-curves and tested via the test vectors. Currently https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01#section-2.3 says that implementations SHOULD reject inputs with the high-bit set. I think that should be dropped. The X25519 function is specified in terms of bytes in draft-irtf-cfrg-curves and I think the TLS spec should just use that draft. Cheers AGL -- Adam Langley agl@imperialviolet.org https://www.imperialviolet.org
- [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X25519… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X2… Brian Smith
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X2… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X2… Brian Smith
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X2… Adam Langley
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X2… Brian Smith
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X2… Kurt Roeckx
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X2… Brian Smith
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01 and the X2… Simon Josefsson