[OTR-dev] Extension proposal

Wed Feb 10 08:25:59 EST 2016

Given that the NSA and others are now recommending that people don't
bother switching to EC crypto, perhaps it makes sense to just stick with
DSA and up the key size.  That would hopefully be a much easier upgrade.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/nsa-advisory-sparks-concern-of-secret-advance-ushering-in-cryptoapocalypse/

.hc

Ola Bini:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have been working on a proposal for an extension to OTR that adds
> support for Ed25519 signing keys instead of DSA, and also changes the
> usage of SHA-1 and SHA-2 to SHA-3 in the full protocol.
> 
> The proposal can be read here:
> https://github.com/twstrike/otr-extension-J/blob/master/protocol-otr-extension-j.md
> 
> I would appreciate thoughts and comments.
> 
> We have a more or less complete implementation of this for our OTR
> Golang implementation (barring some updates) - and it seems to work
> really well.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
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