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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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