Re: SSH in ECC Internet Draft

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:52:24AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> IMO that (some) ECC libraries happen to use ASN.1 is not a good reason
> to use it as protocol element.

The draft defines one ASN.1 type ('curves', a SEQUENCE of OIDs) where
existing SSHv2 constructs could be used instead.  The draft's other uses
of ASN.1/DER do not require an implementation of SSHv2 to implement
ASN.1/DER outside ECC libraries, but this one type does.

So I agree, remove that type.