<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phill@hallambaker.com" target="_blank">phill@hallambaker.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>The CFRG signature algorithm is equally irrelevant as nobody can possibly be infringing with an algorithm we haven't invented yet.</div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">EdDSA, a Schnorr variant/derivative, was chosen as the basis of the CFRG signature algorithm two months ago in this poll (which you didn't participate in, perhaps hence your confusion):</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/jxHJMxYW2WE3v_LuFYaVNbAIGN0">https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/jxHJMxYW2WE3v_LuFYaVNbAIGN0</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The remaining questions are around the hash and pre-hash functions, which will be the subject of an upcoming poll. Otherwise the algorithm is very much "invented".</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Tony Arcieri<br></div>
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