Quote from: gmaxwell on September 04, 2014, 10:39:33 AM

Quote from: ripper234 on September 04, 2014, 10:27:28 AM

I took the question to crypto.stackexchange.

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/18965/is-secp256r1-more-secure-than-secp256k1

Why would you do that (and bump this old thread) except for pure trolling purposes? Considering that fact that secp256r1 has unexplainable mystery parameters I can't imagine anyone outside of the NSA promoting it.

Because I haven't been able to piece together that the issue brought in this thread was fully resolved (maybe I missed something / read too quickly), and wanted to expose the matter at hand to more eyes.

Since then I also posted to reddit and via it found this other bitcointalk thread that sheds more light on the matter.

No trolling intended I assure you.