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Re: NSA and ECC
by
natb
on 07/09/2013, 19:38:44 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (1)
Ok, so your take is basically the same as the commenter on Schneier's blog (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html#c1678526).

Basically he says what you are saying - that a recommended 'random' number generator for use with ECC has been proven to have backdoors, and that some families of ECC curves have weaknesses. However, because we're using secp256k1, a known curve with explainable/justifiable constants, the concern cited by Bruce is not applicable to Bitcoin in addition to the weak motivation for attacking it anyhow.

Thanks for the reply.