Comment by aaomidi
2 years ago
Yeah I've noticed people mixing them up. They happened around the same time, so I can excuse it a bit.
The problem with the NIST ECC curves are that we still do not know where the heck that seed came from and why that seed specifically.
See Koblitz and Menenzes:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf