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Accelerate ECDSA/ECDHE

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#367 opened on Nov 5, 2019

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Description

use m2crypto, pycryptodome, cryptography or some other native library to accelerate ECDSA and ECDHE operations

some mechanism similar to the one used for RSA keys should be used to select the backend implementing the actual crypto

this is continuation of work from #196

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Research direction
Study the existing RSA acceleration mechanism in the codebase (e.g., how RSA keys select backend) and replicate a similar backend selection pattern for ECDSA/ECDHE using native libraries such as m2crypto, pycryptodome, or cryptography.
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python
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backendsecurity
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3
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1-2 days
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40