yet another tiny feature: deterministic ECDSA

[Christian Grothoff]

On 04/12/2013 01:06 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>>> Why not just use a standard protocol? There are loads of standard
>>> protocols for nearly every possible use.
>> But not for what we're doing.  If you want to read up on the
>> details, see https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=2564
>>
> It sounds like you just need salted hash or HMAC if I understand the
> algorithm
>
>
No, that's insufficient as the encrypted message must be verifiable for 
intermediaries that do
not have access to the key, so public key crypto is required.

Christian