[Cryptech-Commits] [sw/libhal] branch master updated: "Double and add" is sort of like "square and muliply", but "square and add" is just a symptom of editing documentation in one's sleep. Feh.

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       new  ede0e7d   "Double and add" is sort of like "square and muliply", but "square and add" is just a symptom of editing documentation in one's sleep.  Feh.
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commit ede0e7d35ecc5cf27c7524aa52e091dec83bcceb
Author: Rob Austein <sra at hactrn.net>
AuthorDate: Thu May 12 21:43:14 2016 -0400

    "Double and add" is sort of like "square and muliply", but "square and
    add" is just a symptom of editing documentation in one's sleep.  Feh.
---
 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d4a387e..85ac9c9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ The current point addition and point doubling algorithms come from the
 [EFD][].  At least at the moment, we're only interested in ECDSA with
 the NIST prime curves, so we use algorithms optimized for a=-3.
 
-The point multiplication algorithm is a straightforward square and add
+The point multiplication algorithm is a straightforward double-and-add
 loop, which is not the fastest possible algorithm, but is relatively
 easy to confirm by inspection as being constant-time within the limits
 imposed by the NIST curves.  Point multiplication could probably be

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