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<p class="MsoNormal">Forwarded message from the IETF security area public mailing list, for those who don’t follow that one.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is interesting, I wasn’t aware that these curves were being standardized by NIST. Just another data point on the popularity and quality of these curves, which many of us have been trying to get allowed for quite some time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Tim<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> saag <saag-bounces@ietf.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>
Paul Wouters<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 3, 2023 9:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> IETF SAAG <saag@ietf.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [saag] FIPS 186-5 and SP800-186 released<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FYI,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NIST just released two new documents:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/___https:/csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-186/final___.YXAzOmRpZ2ljZXJ0OmE6bzoyZWM1ZTk5Mzg4MWYwN2JlMDgyZTZhZjI5YzI1OTQ1YTo2OjgzOGU6OGE2ZTNhZDcyMDM4YjIwNTRlZTk4Mzk1MzM4OTRjMjU0ODUxOWUwNjE3MDdiNDVjNzQyNTc5NzFmMzlhZDBiMzpoOkY" title="Protected by Avanan: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-186/final">https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-186/final</a><br>
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<a href="https://url.avanan.click/v2/___https:/doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.186-5___.YXAzOmRpZ2ljZXJ0OmE6bzoyZWM1ZTk5Mzg4MWYwN2JlMDgyZTZhZjI5YzI1OTQ1YTo2OmFkNTk6MWQ4ZGI2ZWZmMjM1NjBkMDA2ZWZlZmU0ODRkM2FhYzZjZTdlY2RjMzg5Mzc3ZWM4NzliMjVhMTNhMmJhMDMxYTpoOkY" title="Protected by Avanan: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.186-5">https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.186-5</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If a first skim of the document is correct, this makes eddsa, and curve25519 / curve448 in their three forms (Edwards, Montgomery, Weierstrass), FIPS approved.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to Stephan Mueller for the heads up on these :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul<o:p></o:p></p>
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