Re: [Cfrg] big-endian short-Weierstrass please

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 29 January 2015 10:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] big-endian short-Weierstrass please
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On 29/01/15 07:13, Alyssa Rowan wrote:
> unless NIST surprise us and come to like the curves and algorithms
> we do.

Well, NIST are planning a workshop on the topic so you have
the opportunity to submit a position paper or comment to the
effect that they ought do exactly that. Sometimes they are
fairly reasonable after all (though perhaps that is not the
overall impression one gets of 140-1;-)

Cheers,
S.
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