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Re: [Cfrg] Requirements for curve candidate evaluation update

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 14 August 2014 02:34 UTC

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> Requiring a single model for everything significantly reduces opportunities for mistakes and the small performance gain of multiple models does not justify requiring the additional exposure.
 
That's a value judgement, and different people will come to different conclusions. It's certainly not an axiomatic principle. And when I see it put forth like that, I instantly get suspicious of the people doing that.  FWIW.

To me, it's trading off "this is hard, and some people will get it wrong" -- when the community of people doing it is maybe a few hundred, certainly under 1K -- compared to zillions of devices in the web of things for the next couple of decades.

	/r$

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