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

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sun, 03 May 2015 14:39 UTC

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> 1. CFRG should stick to randomised signature schemes only.
> 
> 2. CFRG should adopt deterministic signature scheme only.
> 
> 3. De-randomisation should be an optional feature for implementers to
> decide upon (i.e. both choices 1 and 2 allowed).

#2. Others have done #1 sufficiently. If someone wants to later do #3 on what comes out of #2, they can do that work on their own and CFRG can review it.

--Paul Hoffman

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