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Re: [Cfrg] Suggestion for open competition on PAKE -> Was Re: Dragonfly has advantages

David Jacobson <dmjacobson@sbcglobal.net> Sat, 04 January 2014 21:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Suggestion for open competition on PAKE -> Was Re: Dragonfly has advantages
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On 1/4/14 9:18 AM, Trevor Perrin wrote:
> Another important issue, particularly for EC protocols, is to 
> distinguish operations with a fixed base (or fixed point) from 
> operations with a random base / point. The fixed operations can be 
> optimized to be several times faster (perhaps ~4x is a rule of thumb 
> I've heard).
This seems strange to me, and I've implemented ECC several times over 
the last decade.   I think you might have meant that implementations 
using special modulii that can be written as  the sum of  +/- 1 at 
selected word boundaries or as 2^n - k for some small k are several 
times faster than implementations written to support arbitrary moduli.

     --David

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