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Re: [Cfrg] Proposed requirements for curve candidate evaluation

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 07 August 2014 19:19 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Benjamin Black <b@b3k.us>, Michael Hamburg <mike@shiftleft.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:19:27 -0400
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> This requirement permits twisted Edwards. What it excludes is using different models for different purposes.

And why is that important?  To reduce code size?

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