Re: No point compression in SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, JCA wrote:

> I have noticed that the EC public key sent in the SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
> message is sent without point compression. Are there any plans to use point
> compression eventually? I imagine that, in part, you guys are not yet
> implementing it for patent reasons, right?

I'm not aware of any plans for implementing point compression and I
don't plan on adding it myself. Motivation for not including it was
as much keeping the pre-auth code as simple as possible as anything
else.

-d
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