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Re:Elliptic Curves: The Great Mystery by HelloNurse on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @07:17AM (#34411598)
Do you mean you use known compromised/unreliable algorithms with a significant probability of allowing someone to steal someone's money?
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Re:Elliptic Curves: The Great Mystery by oleganza on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @07:28AM (#34411676)
The point of the OP was that Dalek library provides API to Ristretto (https://ristretto.group) which is a proper mathematical prime order group, unlike stock Ed25519 API that exposes cofactors and caused famous issues in Monero.
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Re:Elliptic Curves: The Great Mystery by josh2600 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @07:38AM (#34411732)
Yes this is my point.

This removes cofactor attacks which famously allowed multi-spend. Dalek removes or severely reduces this possibility.

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