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This article is interesting, but it found it striking that it made absolutely no mention of Curve25519 [0], which has become quite popular today as an replaceme

by tux3 10y ago

This article is interesting, but it found it striking that it made absolutely no mention of Curve25519 [0], which has become quite popular today as an replacement for P-256 and co. Perhaps things would have been different had the article not been written 3 years before the Dual EC backdoor fiasco. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519

tptacek 10y ago
Dual EC has nothing to do with the NIST curves.
- divbit 10y ago
  I think what the root comment is referencing is that the dual EC standard being possibly compromised has made people take a closer look at NIST standards related to their curves.