[164250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google's QUIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Tue Jul 2 14:36:33 2013
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:35:58 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <870ED262-E77A-4FCF-9F31-B3716A416388@dotat.at>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
I'm not implying QUIC plagiarizes MinimaLT, there are differences in the
protocol, just choice of the algorithm implies QUIC authors are aware of
MinimaLT.
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