[openssl-dev] X25519 is the default curve for ECDHE in OpenSSL 1.1.0

Michael Sierchio kudzu at tenebras.com
Fri Sep 16 15:57:59 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:

...

That's because most people have not moved to OpenSSL 1.1.0 yet.  I'm not
> joking, I think that's a major reason.


Well, you've provided them with a reason. ;-) Srsly, thanks for not making
the NIST curves the default.

- M

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