Re: [Cfrg] Preserving Implementation Optimizations

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 01 September 2014 16:19 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>, IRTF CFRG <cfrg@irtf.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:19:33 -0400
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> First, the use of the same curve for digital signature and key agreement is
> highly desirable.  This provides obvious modularity.

Can you explain what you mean by the term "modularity"  Tnx.

	/r$, expert in only admitting what I don't know

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