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The post talks about hypothetical improvements in non-QC approaches to the ECDLP.

• tptacek 11y ago
  Didn't it read dismissive about that to you?
  • sdevlin 11y ago
    The paper or the post? I think the paper is maybe slightly dismissive, closer to neutral: "it is conceivable the NSA has found ...". The post seems more enthusiastic: "the most intriguing hypotheses in the paper" "Beginning with the smallest of the standard curves, P-256, which would now provide less than the required 128-bit security. Did I mention that as part of the recent announcement, NSA also deprecated P-256?" He backtracks a little in the following paragraph ("Of course, there’s no reason to believe ..."), but I think the conspiratorial tone is pretty well established by then. It's also just the fact that he spends about a third of the post talking about this explanation without really covering any of the others. If I hadn't read the paper, I'd come away with the impression that this is the main theory they put forth.