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stousettoday at 3:36 AM1 replyview on HN

256-bit ECC on the other hand is frequently performed by 4-wide 64-bit operations with a little extra accounting.


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mswphdtoday at 3:47 AM

and the more recent (post-quantum) lattice-based stuff can get away with ~16 bit arithmetic (it's vectors of ~512-1024 dimension, but the operations are SIMD-friendly)