[viff-devel] Speed of ElGamal encryption

[Adam Langley]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Claudio Orlandi <orlandi at daimi.au.dk> wrote:
> Could everyone specify the size of the field and the size of the
> secret keys used?
> Otherwise it's quite hard to understand the performance reported.

NaCl boxes use curve25519, so the field is GF(2^255-19) and all keys
are 32 bytes (the 256th bit is unused).


AGL

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