[Cfrg] Minimum required work force for additional curve

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Thu, 26 February 2015 19:03 UTC

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Subject: [Cfrg] Minimum required work force for additional curve
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Since I think this hasn't been clearly asked and that it might
explain the answer on the other questions asked, I'm guess I'll
just ask it myself:

Assuming other than the 128 WF curve we only add 1 other curve,
what is the minimum WF it should have?

I'm proposing the following answers, each time 16 bit more:
144
160
176
192
208
224
240
256


Kurt