On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 09:02:25AM -1000, Brian Smith wrote:
> 
> Does that matter, though? The CFRG document doesn't allow the sender to set
> the high bit to 1, right? In particular, it says "All calculations are
> performed in GF(p), i.e., they are performed modulo p." and "For X25519,
> the unused, most-significant bit MUST be zero."
> 
> If the receiver can detect that the sender is non-conforming, then it
> should be able to stop talking to it on that basis alone.

I don't know enough about all the various draft to know if this
might be a problem or not, but I'm concerned about providing an
error oracle.


Kurt

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