On Jul 24, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Dan Brown wrote:
> The next text after the question tried to clarify that I was not suggesting 
> any such limitation.  

Thank you: it was not clear.

> Anyway, to answer your question: considerable thought was put into ECC 
> parameters in ECDSA standards, so their requirements should make for a good 
> sanity check on any newer curves.  (Are the Brainpool curves actually newer?) 
>  It should be possible to devise newer curve that also adheres to the past 
> ECDSA standards, but if not, there should be a good reason. 

Of course. Anything we do here should have good reason, and it should be 
documented.

--Paul Hoffman
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