Re: [Cfrg] On why point and APIs formats matter (Re: Submission of curve25519 to NIST from CFRG -> was RE: On "non-NIST")

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 12 March 2015 18:42 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, "Watson Ladd (watsonbladd@gmail.com)" <watsonbladd@gmail.com>
Thread-Topic: [Cfrg] On why point and APIs formats matter (Re: Submission of curve25519 to NIST from CFRG -> was RE: On "non-NIST")
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+1 to what Nico and Watson wrote.

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