> To use those EC curves in TLS, IANA need to register these curves[*].
> Do you know any effort to use these curves in TLS?

Xuelei was primarily asking about this from the TLS perspective. RFC 5639 just claims its use would be consistent with the existing TLS ECC approaches, but I don't know of current efforts to actually add them for TLS.

For the more general case, we can consider it, but as with anything ECC, patent issues will come up. RFC 5639 claims "no knowledge of any intellectual property rights...may require use of inventions covered by patents rights." This would require significant legal review.

Brad





On 12/22/2010 6:08 AM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
Hi,

To use those EC curves in TLS, IANA need to register these curves[*]. Do
you know any effort to use these curves in TLS?

Thanks,
Xuelei

[*]
http://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters/tls-parameters.xml#tls-parameters-8

On 12/22/2010 9:38 PM, Samuel Lidén Borell wrote:
Hi,

Would it be possible to support Brainpool ECC [1] in OpenJDK (as named curves)? 
The Brainpool curves are used in European ePassport deployments, for example.

I've submitted a RFE [2] and started working on a patch [3].

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5639
[2] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7007966
[3] https://gist.github.com/740601

Regards,
Samuel Lidén Borell

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