From f66ff85a2f045a63522fd4339034dd82ddfd5798 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Loup Vaillant Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 01:39:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Thank Mike Hamburg for his advice on comb algorithms --- AUTHORS.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md index 93b090d..d8677af 100644 --- a/AUTHORS.md +++ b/AUTHORS.md @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ Implementors - **X25519:** Daniel J. Bernstein, taken and packaged from SUPERCOP ref10. - **EdDSA:** Daniel J. Bernstein, taken and adapted from SUPERCOP - ref10 and TweetNaCl. + ref10 and TweetNaCl. (With significant speed tweaks). + Test suite ---------- @@ -47,3 +48,8 @@ Andrew Moon clarified carry propagation in modular arithmetic. Fabio Scotoni provided much needed advice about testing, interface, and above all, packaging. + +Mike Hamburg explained comb algorithms, including the signed +all-bits-set comb described in his 2012 paper, Fast and compact +elliptic-curve cryptography. This made EdDSA signatures over twice as +fast. -- 2.47.3