Re: [Cfrg] A2 versus A^2 and BB verus AA

Tanja Lange <tanja@hyperelliptic.org> Sat, 10 January 2015 22:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] A2 versus A^2 and BB verus AA
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> All of these were written by experts. What makes 121665 better?
>
Sorry, ignore the "(better)" part. I was thinking about the 
refence implementations being written with these formulas following
the Curve25519 paper but stand corrected.
	Tanja