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Board Speculation (Altcoins)
Re: [XMR] Monero Speculation
by
eizh
on 21/08/2016, 03:28:35 UTC

It looks to me like there will be a replacement as the development progress has slowed to a crawl. Not to mention Diffie-Hellman elliptic Curve25519 is considered not safe.

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I no longer trust the constants. I believe the NSA has manipulated them through their relationships with industry
— Bruce Schneier

Should I continue?

This is exactly backwards. Schneier was referring to the constants of the NIST curves. Curve25519 is not a NIST curve, which is precisely why it's been very popular among cryptographers in recent years.