Looks pretty interesting: "These results show that, in practice, FourQ is around four to five times faster than the original NIST P-256 curve and between two an

Looks pretty interesting: "These results show that, in practice, FourQ is around four to five times faster than the original NIST P-256 curve and between two and three times faster than curves that are currently under consideration as NIST alternatives, such as Curve25519." Also check out FourQlib[1], MSR's (MIT-licensed) C implementation of this research. [1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fourqlib/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fourqlib/