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Re: [Cfrg] draft-goldbe-vrf: Verifiable Random Functions

"Paterson, Kenny" <Kenny.Paterson@rhul.ac.uk> Wed, 19 July 2017 07:55 UTC

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From: "Paterson, Kenny" <Kenny.Paterson@rhul.ac.uk>
To: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>, Sharon Goldberg <goldbe@cs.bu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] draft-goldbe-vrf: Verifiable Random Functions
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Hi Tony,

I think this is an excellent suggestion. It's something I hit in my own
research recently too.

So: any volunteers to start a draft on this?

Cheers

Kenny

On 18/07/2017 19:37, "Cfrg on behalf of Tony Arcieri"
<cfrg-bounces@irtf.org on behalf of bascule@gmail.com> wrote:

>Just a quick note on section 5.4.1, and perhaps a question to the chairs:
>
>
>Would it be worth it for the CFRG to specify standard schemes for hashing
>to elliptic curve points? This draft talks about both the "hash and pray"
>method (5.4.1.1) then also the Icart method as well as Elligator
>(5.4.1.2).
>
>
>This seems like a common enough problem it'd be nice to have
>off-the-shelf solutions for it, rather than every higher level protocol
>having to specify their own.
>
>--
>Tony Arcieri
>

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