[curves] General Curve25519 and Ed25519 Libraries

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Thu Jun 18 10:05:01 PDT 2015


I may be ignorant here but I'm wondering why adding support for
a different curve is such a big deal for all these libraries and
programs.

Isn't a curve just a block of static parameters which some
generic ECC code can work on?  Why isn't adding a curve just a
matter of defining a data block?

				Bear

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