Use of Curve25519

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Published on 2010-03-25T13:38:29Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 15:53 UTC
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I'm currently investigating the use of curve25519 for signing. Original distribution can be obtained here and a C code implementation here or here.

Bernstein suggest to use ECDSA for this but I could not find any code.

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