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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.

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tptacek  2 years ago

See Koblitz and Menenzes:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf

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