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Re: [Cfrg] Curve manipulation, revisited

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 29 December 2014 18:25 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:25:25 -0500
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> May I ask why?  If we can make key agreement faster by using X25519
> instead of P-256, it stands to reason that we can make signatures faster by
> using Ed25519 instead of P-256.

TLS only needs a key exchange.  (X509 certificates are signed, of course, but that's a separable issue.)

I wanted to focus on the one simple requirement. 

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