Very nice exposition (for a mathematician :) Given the quality of this initial post, I actually find it kind of unfortunate that the focus of the series seems t

Very nice exposition (for a mathematician :) Given the quality of this initial post, I actually find it kind of unfortunate that the focus of the series seems to be on the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor, since that is (and should be) such a rare use of elliptic curves.