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Did you forget about NIST curve recommendations?

• hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
  Not at all, considering that coincidentally just yesterday I was having an HN discussion on an unrelated topic about DJ Bernstein, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein#Cryptography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein#Cryptograp.... You're right though, I guess I didn't mean to say that NSA would give up on or would not want back doors into widely deployed crypto algorithms, but even with Dual_EC_DRBG the suspicions were widely known and discussed before it was a NIST standard (i.e. I guess you could say it was a conspiracy, but it wasn't really a secret conspiracy), and the standard was withdrawn in 2014.
  • knewter 3y ago
    Do you believe NIST stopped trying to backdoor curves in 2014?