Add Ristretto note to intro

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Henry de Valence 2018-01-25 17:34:06 -08:00
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@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ implementing a wide range of ECC-based crypto protocols, such as key agreement,
signatures, anonymous credentials, rangeproofs, and zero-knowledge proof
systems.
In particular, `curve25519-dalek` implements Ristretto, which constructs a
prime-order group from a non-prime-order Edwards curve. This provides the
speed and safety benefits of Edwards curve arithmetic, without the pitfalls of
cofactor-related abstraction mismatches.
## WARNING
We do not yet consider this code to be production-ready. We intend to