triple DH

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 20 May 2015 12:41, wk at gnupg.org said:

> Thus this is about generating keys in a way to allow point compression
> in a non-patent encumbered way.  Meanwhile the point compression patent

The reason for the lower speed can not be attributed to Jivsov's trick
but the fact that we convert to affine coordinates twice (which requires
an inversion).  The attached patch remove the double conversion.

Does this help?


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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