tlswg / rfc4492bis

A repo for an updated RFC 4492.
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x25519/x448 names don't match TLS 1.3 #36

Closed davidben closed 7 years ago

davidben commented 7 years ago

(@ekr suggested I file this here.)

In TLS 1.3, we dropped the "ecdh_" prefix on ecdh_x25519 and ecdh_x448 when we split signatures from NamedCurve/Group. The documents should probably match in naming one way or another. I think plain x25519 and x448 is tidier. X25519 already denotes the ECDH function, as opposed to curve25519 which is the curve.