[OTR-users] OTR-encryption not safe - DSA 1024bit is too short

Pete Stephenson pete at heypete.com
Wed Dec 12 13:18:57 EST 2012


On 12/12/2012 2:48 PM, . wrote:
> Or maybe ECC (shorter, comparable, keys), which requires less computing
> power, with your own curves, not NIST's ones.

Is there any particular reason why NIST curves are inadequate? I'm not
aware of any weakness of using NIST curves.

Cheers!
-Pete



More information about the OTR-users mailing list