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Re: [Cfrg] [CFRG] Safecurves v Brainpool / Rigid v Pseudorandom

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr> Tue, 14 January 2014 12:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] [CFRG] Safecurves v Brainpool / Rigid v Pseudorandom
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On 14/01/2014 02:38, Watson Ladd wrote:
> Do we need great big flashing
> lights *this is not in short Weierstrass form*?

As a matter of fact, yes, I think it couldn't hurt.

Historical matters are of not practical importance. What matters is the current
state of the ECC literature. And I can only agree with Paul here: for most
existing (practical) documentation, an elliptic curve is *by definition* an
elliptic curve in short Weierstrass form.

> And what does it say
> about our implementors that they do not know the basics of the algorithms
> they are asked to implement?
> 
I'm not sure despising implementers will actually help improving the quality of
implementations. Clear documentation, however, might help. (Though not everyone
reads the (right) documentation, unfortunately.)

Manuel.

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