On 01/17/2013 08:54 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:

>> 6. For general point multiplication, I tend towards using a simple
>>    non-sliding window, with a small point-specific table computed at run
>>    time. If the table is small enough, it might make sense to normalize
>>    the entries. As far as I understand, one can't beat the plain binary
>>    algorithm by a large factor; the algorithms I'm aware of only reduce
>>    the number of adds, but not the number of dups.


btw. moving from the sliding window version (the one I submitted last
year) to wmnaf, gave 7-16% performance boost in transaction/sec on
ECDH/ECDSA depending on the size of the curve. So given that the sliding
window method is faster than the simple, it could be quite a difference.

regards,
Nikos
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