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| author | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2016-11-19 05:36:11 -0500 |
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| committer | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2016-11-19 05:36:11 -0500 |
| commit | 137a08ff71778ebb6e6eeb1b4aaeea9ab659f5f6 (patch) | |
| tree | d7cebe175383e06d1f1b875d2ce4c4071b012f90 /doc | |
| parent | 9a4a639fa3586a5ec10444d0fc26049bd9c3b707 (diff) | |
Order default TLS ECC curve preferences by performance
Moves x25519 to the front for best by-default side channel resistance,
and orders remaining NIST/BP curves by performance rather than size.
That means putting P-521 before P-384, since P-521 is much faster at
least in Botan (due to much simpler modular reduction for P-521 prime),
and Brainpools to the end due to being quite slow (no fast reductions).
All of the supported curves seem strong enough, and if someone can break
P-256 they can probably break P-384 as well so there doesn't seem much
advantage in preferring slower curves by default.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/tls.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/tls.rst b/doc/manual/tls.rst index 973b8ff0f..8508b0a70 100644 --- a/doc/manual/tls.rst +++ b/doc/manual/tls.rst @@ -607,9 +607,10 @@ policy settings from a file. .. cpp:function:: std::vector<std::string> allowed_ecc_curves() const Return a list of ECC curves we are willing to use, in order of preference. + The default ordering puts the best performing ECC first. - Default: "brainpool512r1", "secp521r1", "brainpool384r1", - "secp384r1", "brainpool256r1", "secp256r1", "x25519" + Default: "x25519", "secp256r1", "secp521r1", "secp384r1", + "brainpool256r1", "brainpool384r1", "brainpool512r1" No other values are currently defined. |