Google's QUIC

Tue Jul 2 18:40:03 UTC 2013

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2013-06-29 23:36 +0100), Tony Finch wrote:
>
>> Reminds me of MinimaLT: http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20130522.pdf
>
> Now that I read separate 'QUIC Crypto' page. It sounds bit of a deja vu.
>
> QUIC also uses Curve25519 pubkey and Salsa20 cipher, which is hard to
> attribute as chance, considering both are DJB's work, both are used by his
> NaCl library and by extension by MinimaLT. Neither is particularly common
> algorithm.

Taking into consideration these are the best algorithms in their class
currently, it would be more surprising to me if they weren't used.

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Darius Jahandarie