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Throw away tweetnacl and tweetnacl-util

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cryptography

Research direction

Start by locating all tweetnacl and tweetnacl-util usage in the TypeScript source and checking how noble/curves is already available through the MetaMask dependency tree. Review the signing and verification tests, then confirm that removing those packages preserves the existing behavior and dependency set.

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Description

There's faster noble/curves which is also audited; also it's used already through MM dependency tree

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