RFC 7748

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RFC 7748 is an IETF standard that specifies the elliptic curves Curve25519 and Curve448 for secure key exchange in modern cryptographic protocols.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf IETF Request for Comments
cryptography standard
area Security
author Adam Langley NERFINISHED
Mike Hamburg NERFINISHED
Sean Turner NERFINISHED
category Informational
curveType Montgomery curve
defines Curve25519 NERFINISHED
Curve448 NERFINISHED
definesCoordinateSystem Montgomery x-coordinate
definesOperation scalar multiplication on elliptic curves
fieldSizeOfCurve25519 2^255 - 19
fieldSizeOfCurve448 2^448 - 2^224 - 1
focusesOn elliptic-curve cryptography
key exchange
public-key cryptography
intendedFor high-performance cryptography
interoperable implementations
intendedUse modern cryptographic protocols
language English
obsoletedBy none
obsoletes none
partOf IETF cryptographic algorithm portfolio NERFINISHED
publicationDate 2016-01
publishedBy Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force
recommends constant-time implementations
relatedTo Curve25519 NERFINISHED
Curve448 NERFINISHED
RFC 8032 NERFINISHED
RFCNumber 7748
securityGoal forward secrecy
resistance to side-channel attacks
specifies Diffie–Hellman key exchange using Curve25519 NERFINISHED
Diffie–Hellman key exchange using Curve448 NERFINISHED
Montgomery curves over prime fields
elliptic curves for key agreement
status Internet Standard Track Document NERFINISHED
stream Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF
title Elliptic Curves for Security
usedIn Noise Protocol Framework NERFINISHED
SSH key exchange extensions
TLS 1.3 NERFINISHED
Transport Layer Security NERFINISHED
year 2016

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