curve25519 and encryption capabilities

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:34, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:

> fwiw, djb seems to be proposing (on the CFRG mailing list) that the
> curve itself should be referred to as Curve25519; the signature
> mechanism should be Ed25519; and the DH key exchange should be X25519.

I know, it is now all a mess.  Reminds me of PGP's use of D-H while the
standard correctly uses Elgamal.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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