Re: deaft-gree-sedsh-ecc-08: small correction

[Peter Gutmann <pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost>]

Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost> writes:

>Note that our implementation does not accept compressed points. I think that
>is was a mistake to allow these as optional in the RFC, because there is no
>way of recovering if one side does not accept them.

>From experience with TLS and S/MIME I don't think there's any danger of anyone
every using compressed points, so in practice it probably won't be an issue.
Still, it'd be useful to have errata for the RFC that removes them or at least
makes them a SHOULD NOT.

Peter.