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by dependenttypes 2148 days ago
> Historically sometimes people would say "Well nobody would make an error like that in a modern elliptic curve scheme" and then Microsoft turns out to have shipped a very popular operating system named "Windows" which didn't do curve validation - so much for that belief.

I am pretty sure that CryptoAPI does not support (or at least did not at the time) any modern elliptic curve signature scheme, and by modern I am referring to thins like ed25519.