On Tuesday 19 May 2009 08:14:36 pm David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> Correction: for ECDSA there are two options -- q is prime, or
> q = 2^m.

Right.  If q=2^m (which was specified in the LAFS paper, IIRC) then the 
distribution of x*y mod q is not uniform.  If q is prime, then this problem 
disappears.

        Shawn.
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