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Higher security constructions (using X448) #6

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tarcieri opened this issue Dec 29, 2017 · 0 comments
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Higher security constructions (using X448) #6

tarcieri opened this issue Dec 29, 2017 · 0 comments

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tarcieri commented Dec 29, 2017

XSTREAM constructions providing security levels higher than 128-bit are not presently specified.

It would be possible using the X448 elliptic curve (i.e. the Montgomery form of Ed448-Goldilocks) for key agreement along with HKDF-SHA-512 for key derivation and AES-SIV/AES-PMAC-SIV in conjunction with AES-256. This curve uses a 448-bit field and provides a ~224-bit security level.

Libraries implementing X448 are a bit hard to come by, however.

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