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Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: randomised or not (ends on May 13th)

Alyssa Rowan <akr@akr.io> Sun, 03 May 2015 17:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: randomised or not (ends on May 13th)
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On 2015-05-03 12:14, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

> 2. CFRG should adopt deterministic signature scheme only.

#2, deterministic required.

It's the obvious, dramatically better right answer:

• We don't need a secure CSPRNG to sign things, only to generate keys.
• We have test vectors for signatures.

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