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Re: [Cfrg] Chopping out curves

"Igoe, Kevin M." <kmigoe@nsa.gov> Fri, 17 January 2014 19:14 UTC

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From: "Igoe, Kevin M." <kmigoe@nsa.gov>
To: 'Watson Ladd' <watsonbladd@gmail.com>, Alyssa Rowan <akr@akr.io>
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On Fri 1/17/2014 2:01 PM EST Watson Ladd wrote:

> Okay. I'll follow the Ed25519 paper and call it te25519 and add the 
> paper as a reference.
> Are rationals fine, or do people want me to write big numbers?

I'd vote for both.  Removes a possible source of implementation error
and provides the implementer with an easy check the values were entered
properly.

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