ECDSA vs EDDSA

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 11/10/2014 01:16 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> I can give two significant differences between ECDSA and EdDSA:
> 
> 1) Signature creation is deterministic in EdDSA; ECDSA requires
> high quality randomness for each and every signature to be safe
> (just as regular ol' DSA). If low-quality randomness  is used an
> attacker can

This is not necessarily true if [RFC6979]: "Deterministic Usage of the
Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature
Algorithm (ECDSA)" is used.

References:
[RFC6979] http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6979.txt



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