Timeline for Does a TLS client needs to support one of the named groups (curves?) supported by the server for TLS handshake to succeed?
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| Nov 21, 2019 at 6:32 | comment | added | dave_thompson_085 | Most of that eclectic list of curves is older, but in practice for TLS almost nobody ever used any 'binary' (char-2) curve, or the Brainpool curves. The only popular curves -- and the only ones retained in TLS1.3 -- are the NIST-adopted prime curves P-256/secp256r1 P-384/secp384r1 P-521/secp521r1 and the Bernstein curves mostly x25519 and to a lesser extent x448. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 13:37 | comment | added | Nitradamus | Thanks. I appreciate your feedback. I know I'm taking a slight compatibility risk in this, but I do appreciate your view on it. | |
| Nov 20, 2019 at 13:37 | vote | accept | Nitradamus | ||
| Nov 20, 2019 at 10:40 | history | answered | mti2935 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |