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Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coordinate systems (ends on March 12th)

Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> Fri, 06 March 2015 02:28 UTC

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From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - curve form and coordinate systems (ends on March 12th)
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Alyssa Rowan <akr@akr.io> wrote:

> Yes, stick with Montgomery for DH/scalarmult.
>
> The simplicity of X25519 is extremely hard to beat, and it has already
> been widely deployed. I see no good reason to change that.


+1 to both these remarks

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