Add support for deterministic ECDSA #135
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It's a good practice to use deterministic ECDSA by default. However, it is typically slower than using an RNG, e.g., reading from
dev/urandom.The
biscuit-rustimplementation uses a deterministic ECDSA by default. Also the JWT best practices RFC warns about the dangers of using bad RNG with ECDSA, in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8725#section-3.2-5.2: