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Use the complete formulas for point doubling and addition

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by reading the linked SafeCurves page and the 2015/1060 paper, then locate the point addition and doubling implementation in the repository. Compare the current special-case handling with the complete formulas and determine how both operations should use them; done means the implementation uses complete formulas to reduce special-case bugs.

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Description

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https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ is outdated, there are complete point addition and doubling formulas: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1060 we should use them to protect against bugs in special case handling

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