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michaelt • last Friday at 10:52 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Thank god NIST gifted us Dual_EC_DRBG, so I still have a NIST Elliptic Curve effort I can sneer at dismissively.

RSA was good enough for my grandfather, and it's good enough for me.


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tptacek • yesterday at 1:36 AM

It would be helpful, for your sneering, to understand that Dual EC is not in fact a NIST elliptic curve.