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A comment on NSA panicked deprecation of suite B.

Re:NSA panicked deprecation of suite B by ludbb on Thursday October 22, 2015 @07:17PM (#10435823)
If this is sound, the theory that bitcoin is just the first cryptocurrency of its generation is now confirmed: bitcoin is dead.

If that website about bitcoin obituaries is around this update should be added there.

Clarifications as requested:

1) The article is about ECC

2) The article doesn't mention secp256k1, but it mentions EC curves in general and special those in the 256 bit field -- which secp256k1 is one of them

3) If NSA is able to crack 256 bits curves, what makes secp256k1 special to all this? Nothing.

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Re:NSA panicked deprecation of suite B by viraptor on Thursday October 22, 2015 @07:39PM (#10435915)
What? There's absolutely no connection between bitcoin and anything in that article, especially not with ECC.
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Re:NSA panicked deprecation of suite B by wmf on Thursday October 22, 2015 @07:43PM (#10435936)
Bitcoin uses P-256 that the NSA just deprecated.
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Re:NSA panicked deprecation of suite B by stevendhansen on Thursday October 22, 2015 @07:46PM (#10435944)
Nope, by a stroke of luck Bitcoin uses secp256k1 instead, which is not included in Suite B.
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Re:NSA panicked deprecation of suite B by viraptor on Thursday October 22, 2015 @07:52PM (#10435970)
It uses Secp256k1 which does not come from NIST.
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Re:NSA panicked deprecation of suite B by jamesdsadler on Thursday October 22, 2015 @07:48PM (#10435955)
Please elaborate.
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