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Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: friendliness to low memory implementations (ends on June 3rd)

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 22 May 2015 15:27 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Thread-Topic: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: friendliness to low memory implementations (ends on June 3rd)
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: friendliness to low memory implementations (ends on June 3rd)
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> ...this is just too common an API pattern.
> The assumption of online signing is quite pervasive; an off-line-only signature
> scheme might have a hard time getting traction.

+1

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