Folks: I would like to wrap ECDSA for my pycryptopp library. If we use ECDSA in the allmydata.org decentralized filesystem, then we'll be very sensitive to key pair generation time. Looking at the Crypto++ benchmarks suggests that Crypto++ can generate key pairs over GF(p) 256 about three times as fast as over GF(2^n) 233. What I haven't figured out yet, despite much scratching my head and searching the Net, is whether there are any patents in effect which claim to cover what Crypto++ does when you ask it to generate a key pair over GF(p) 256 and then to sign and to verify signatures.
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