Re: nistp224 80-bit accuracy hack

"D. J. Bernstein" <[email protected]> 16 Sep 2005 07:52:27 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.org.djb.miscellaneous
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curve25519 (http://cr.yp.to/ecdh.html) is new Diffie-Hellman software
with several advantages over nistp224. One of the advantages is that the
code is immune to compiler screwups: it's straight asm in *.s files.

Subsequent versions will include a simpler API, a non-x86 port, and
various speedups.

---D. J. Bernstein, Professor, Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago