[Ach] DH Groups in VPN section

Aaron Zauner azet at azet.org
Tue Dec 17 14:25:10 CET 2013


I’ve removed them for now. Since we’d need to discuss which of the SECG curves (i.e. at which security level) we’d be willing to include. Some of those are low security others high.

Aaron

On 17 Dec 2013, at 13:27, L. Aaron Kaplan <kaplan at cert.at> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Aaron Zauner <azet at azet.org> wrote:
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>> The table now states:
>> 
>> Group 14–18, 19–21
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> Group 14–21
>> 
>> This includes (NIST) EC groups. Do we want that in a VPN? Probably not.
>> 
>> I’d rather put Group 14, 21 there explicitly. I’ll change that. 
>> 
> 
> I'd say: 
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> Leave them in there but mark them as  NIST curves and refer to the section on ECC which discusses the issues with NIST curves.
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