Someone interested in a serious, rather than derisive, attempt at selecting good curves with cofactor 1 may want to look at the recent paper by Bos, Costello, L

Someone interested in a serious, rather than derisive, attempt at selecting good curves with cofactor 1 may want to look at the recent paper by Bos, Costello, Longa and Naehrig[0]. [0]: http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/130 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/130