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Re: [kitten] SPAKE preauth: generation of SPAKE2 secret input

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 14 May 2015 16:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [kitten] SPAKE preauth: generation of SPAKE2 secret input
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OTOH, I think we need timing side-channel-free curve implementations
anyways, which means that as long as x is chosen randomly and somewhat
uniformly, it will do.

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