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Elements of G2 in D curves should have order r. #2

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blynn opened this issue Apr 25, 2011 · 0 comments

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blynn commented Apr 25, 2011

In D curves, we save a little time when generating points in G2 by avoiding an exponentiation to make them order r.

Unfortunately this breaks element_is1 and element_cmp in G2, which are needed in cryptosystems such as ZK protocols.

To fix this, when generating an element of G2, we should ensure it has order r even for type D curves.

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