Not every elliptic curve is the same: trough on ECC security (2010)

Re:Not every elliptic curve is the same: trough on ECC secur... by tux3 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:12PM (#12226514)

This article is interesting, but it found it striking that it made absolutely no mention of Curve25519 [0], which has become quite popular today as an replacement for P-256 and co. Perhaps things would have been different had the article not been written 3 years before the Dual EC backdoor fiasco.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519

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Re:Not every elliptic curve is the same: trough on ECC secur... by tptacek on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:35PM (#12226702)

Dual EC has nothing to do with the NIST curves.

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Re:Not every elliptic curve is the same: trough on ECC secur... by divbit on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:42PM (#12226756)

I think what the root comment is referencing is that the dual EC standard being possibly compromised has made people take a closer look at NIST standards related to their curves.

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