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Re: [Cfrg] patent situation regarding hash2curve as used in some PAKE nominations

"Björn Haase" <Bjoern.M.Haase@web.de> Thu, 17 October 2019 13:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] patent situation regarding hash2curve as used in some PAKE nominations
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>I might be missing something, but I believe P-384 is over GF(p) for
>p = 2**384-2**128-2**96+2**32-1
>which is congruent to 3 mod 4, so the same method should work.
 
Yes. You are right. Got confused by seeing Icart's algorithm for p = 2 mod 3 recommended for P-384. (See my last mail to Uri)

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