[Cfrg] Schnorr Recommendations -> was Re: IEEE 1609 requirements (was Re: Curve selection revisited)
Paul Lambert <paul@marvell.com> Tue, 29 July 2014 20:18 UTC
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From: Paul Lambert <paul@marvell.com>
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Subject: [Cfrg] Schnorr Recommendations -> was Re: IEEE 1609 requirements (was Re: Curve selection revisited)
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On 7/28/14, 9:14 PM, "Watson Ladd" <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote: >>Yes! In particular, whatever choice is made by CFRG is likely to be >>more widely supported in hardware than any alternative, so CFRG's >>choice will be the strongest candidate to replace ECDSA if it has >>sufficient advantages. > >Well, unfortunately we are not adopting Schnorr signatures at this >time. (We probably should). Yes. Do you have a recommendation for a specific Schnorr variant? I¹ve inserted 'new curves' in other entity based standards work and it is the natural time to also update the signature algorithm. Paul
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