RFC 7748

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RFC 7748 is an IETF standard that specifies the elliptic curves Curve25519 and Curve448 for secure key exchange in modern cryptographic protocols.

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RFC 7748 canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf IETF Request for Comments
cryptography standard
area Security
author Adam Langley
Mike Hamburg
Sean Turner
category Informational
curveType Montgomery curve
defines Curve25519
Curve448
definesCoordinateSystem Montgomery x-coordinate
definesOperation scalar multiplication on elliptic curves
fieldSizeOfCurve25519 2^255 - 19
fieldSizeOfCurve448 2^448 - 2^224 - 1
focusesOn elliptic-curve cryptography
key exchange
public-key cryptography
intendedFor high-performance cryptography
interoperable implementations
intendedUse modern cryptographic protocols
language English
obsoletedBy none
obsoletes none
partOf IETF cryptographic algorithm portfolio
publicationDate 2016-01
publishedBy IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
recommends constant-time implementations
relatedTo Curve25519
Curve448
RFC 8032
RFCNumber 7748
securityGoal forward secrecy
resistance to side-channel attacks
specifies Diffie–Hellman key exchange using Curve25519
Diffie–Hellman key exchange using Curve448
linked to: Curve448

Montgomery curves over prime fields
elliptic curves for key agreement
status Internet Standard Track Document
stream IETF
title Elliptic Curves for Security
usedIn Noise Protocol Framework
SSH key exchange extensions
TLS 1.3
linked to: RFC 8446

Transport Layer Security
linked to: TLS
year 2016

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RFC 8032 relatedTo RFC 7748
Curve448 standardizedIn RFC 7748