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Re: [Cfrg] Requirements for curve candidate evaluation update

Tanja Lange <tanja@hyperelliptic.org> Fri, 15 August 2014 02:31 UTC

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>    4. The security levels are 128, 192, and 256 bits and each curve will only
>    be evaluated at one of those levels.
> 
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

Seriously, define for me n-bit security level.

	Tanja

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