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optimized verification for eddsa

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#107 opened on Apr 24, 2020

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In https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/454.pdf, Pornin describes a method for accelerating the calculation of EdDSAsignatures using lattice reduction.

It would be a good improvement this verification method for Ed25519 and Ed448 signatures.

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