-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 11/10/2014 01:16 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > I can give two significant differences between ECDSA and EdDSA: > > 1) Signature creation is deterministic in EdDSA; ECDSA requires > high quality randomness for each and every signature to be safe > (just as regular ol' DSA). If low-quality randomness is used an > attacker can
This is not necessarily true if [RFC6979]: "Deterministic Usage of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)" is used. References: [RFC6979] http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6979.txt - -- - ---------------------------- Kristian Fiskerstrand Blog: http://blog.sumptuouscapital.com Twitter: @krifisk - ---------------------------- Public OpenPGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 - ---------------------------- "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts" (Albert Einstein) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUYMyUAAoJEPw7F94F4TagYjwP/33PRICPNQj2KoI381bnV/cG 0I1AXjSrYMIsq4C+BAyA3gR78YJLnbJ6Y/p8DMg+tTX/sHiSlpxHZvFTVRZzuzYT EOlssOpEFLIu8zGUXbkkLIlB8KDHL9L+XWDnU+VUC28TRj/6+QDAIQnz+JoOpQ4m IT2BwDaQkqkyHzialzB9bER6wjC5BdN83x5Qgjoyt+0I6yrtWrqItVjQspXp5gQC jaoBQKM5fV87xZu02qXLmzy9/ZnNA13JP8+tagwzVbiS+1dvCDhKG1NxVvtz9blB UXpb2Y3GwmfSIRop064JyMFkV5CqPCcDmrwu5IryPpp98N2DeMlDsd0UCL/eKykZ 1XTCKmypM4NOAybdMDA0q2GLI/Ab9UK/iA1QdU9Do8+3hC6nqS73yf0DSjWQoKzz wwjyYGx/NJM5NfDrnNNjiMQmqnONSCy9eB/V92Azqed7M8YS1oY0X9vDfUK4rJ9L rl/0W2pHHRkprwJRHoyAmQClXUABnALT9vptJtxqCqbdbNysYxbWpUUQnQzuM8Ft 63b0Ov3eaAgqSDEFiLVqtAD6Wa/d+EWm7LxgPn03d0gENq5yCx4yhflkxYuexKpk /JveJr6/oFTD7M05jQrSvnwVGtiyZV6DpyWdGuMbNmVPPOuHH772yevnR2xJ3AMP f8KJbOm+IRliVU7aWunp =RNmo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
