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I believe they're talking about something like ECC

> To use ECC, all parties must agree on all the elements defining the elliptic curve, that is, the domain parameters of the scheme. The size of the field used is typically either prime (and denoted as p) or is a power of two

like "25519"

> An EdDSA signature scheme is a choice: ... of finite field F q over odd prime power q ... Ed25519 is the EdDSA signature scheme where q = 2^255 - 19

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#Do...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdDSA#Ed25519






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