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

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sun, 03 May 2015 12:28 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>, "cfrg@irtf.org" <cfrg@irtf.org>
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> > 2. CFRG should adopt deterministic signature scheme only.
> 
> That one please. My reasons are that the catastrophic failures have
> happened and must be avoided and I don't like having unnecessary choices.

What Stephen said. Further, we're not going to go back and make existing formats and their uses illegal, so if you want DSA you know where to find it.

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