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Re: [Cfrg] Alternatives to rigidity?

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 01 January 2015 03:01 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Alternatives to rigidity?
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 06:49:53PM -0800, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are certainly other questions like a signature algorithm, but even
> > there I think EdDSA is widely accepted, and performs well too.
> 
> And if EdDSA vs ECDSA is an issue, perhaps consider using Ed25519 keys and
> convert to Weierstrass to do ECDSA. No need for FrankenECDSA that way.

EdDSA is quite convincing and has some convenient advantages over ECDSA.
It'd be nice to see a complete treatment of it by CFRG.

Nico
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