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List:       cfrg
Subject:    Re: [Cfrg] Elliptic Curves - signature scheme: friendliness to low memory implementations (ends on J
From:       Simon Josefsson <simon () josefsson ! org>
Date:       2015-05-29 19:49:11
Message-ID: 87siafxiyw.fsf () latte ! josefsson ! org
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Andrey Jivsov <crypto@brainhub.org> writes:

> Major OpenPGP implementations use streaming mode to sign (e.g. in 'cat
> InFile | gpg --clearsign'), just as with encryption, without writing
> sensitive data to a temporary file. They depend on IUF. I haven't seen
> this with SMIME/CMS -- this is harder, but possible.

It is no problem to support streaming of inputs and at the same time
support for example EdDSA which does not follow the IUF paradigm.  Don't
confuse Unix stdin/stdout streaming with streaming of input to a digital
signature algorithm.

/Simon

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