Require cofactorless (unbatched) verification equation for EdDSA #25
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Resolve #19 by mandating the use of the cofactorless (unbatched) verification equation in Ed25519 and Ed448.
According to #19 (comment) and web-platform-tests/wpt#43751 (comment), this is already the current behavior of OpenSSL, BoringSSL, and Apple's CryptoKit. Hopefully this is true for other implementations as well, but let me know if there are any objections, of course.
Additionally, since Web Crypto does not have an API for batch signature verification, there seems to be no reason to use the cofactored (batched) equation.
By mandating one of the two equations, we reduce the risk of interoperability failures, as well as the risk of this (potential) difference being used to fingerprint implementations.
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