"NM" == Niels Möller nisse@lysator.liu.se writes:
NM> So first question is naming; what's the most established names for NM> these curves? It seems gnutls uses, e.g., "SECP256R1", I guess we NM> can just follow that (rather than, e.g, "P-256", as it's called in NM> the DSA spec fips-186-3)?
RFC 6239 (Suite B Crypto Suites for SSH) has this to say about naming:
,----< excerpt from rfc6239.txt > | Curve NIST name SECG name OID [SEC2] | --------------------------------------------------------------- | P-256 nistp256 secp256r1 1.2.840.10045.3.1.7 | P-384 nistp384 secp384r1 1.3.132.0.34 `----
(Based on [SEC2], I presume the next line would be:
?-??? nistp521 secp521r1 1.3.132.0.35 )
So it looks liek the secp...r1 names are as good as any.
-JimC