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When you talk about 1x3 or 3x1, we do not know if you are talking about COLxROW or ROWxCOL. The typical way of representing a vector in a matrix is ROWxCOL terms, so 3x1 is what you are looking for The matrix multiplication uses a single column with $N$ entries multiplied by an $N*N$ matrix. Since this is multiplication the order does not matter, $P*K$ is ...

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Curve25519 was designed to take advantage of the Montgomery ladder, which combined with Montgomery curves forgoes the $Y$ coordinates, is side-channel resistant, and enables public keys to be any 255-bit string. The ladder looks something like this (pseudocode): Q[0] = P; Q[1] = 2*P; for(int i = log2(exponent) - 2; i >= 0; --i) { Q[ bit(exponent, i)] ...

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Did you take a look at DjB's paper? One of his design criterias in order to improve performance is "Use a fixed position for the leading 1 in the secret key". The set of secret keys is defined to be $\{\underline{n} : n \in 2^{254} + 8\{0, 1, 2, 3,\ldots, 2^{251}-1\}\}$.

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Full disclosure — I'm a Skein/Threefish co-author. Also, when I mention Skein/Threefish without any other qualification, I mean Skein/Threefish-512. The security proofs we did for Skein prove that if there's a weakness in Skein, it implies an underlying weakness in its components (Threefish or UBI). As Dmitry says above, Threefish is very strong, and there ...

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Pure Threefish has received less attention than Skein. Shortly speaking, it has a large security margin, and can be safely used for encryption. In more details, Threefish has been tweaked twice. The first two versions were vulnerable to rotational cryptanalysis in weak models (related-key attacks or distinguishers) up to 57 rounds. All these attacks are ...

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