Comment by api
2 years ago
Also: if the NIST ECC curves actually are backdoored then why would the NSA need to try to push a backdoored random number generator? Just exploit the already-backdoored curves.
2 years ago
Also: if the NIST ECC curves actually are backdoored then why would the NSA need to try to push a backdoored random number generator? Just exploit the already-backdoored curves.
Redundancy, so if one backdoor is closed/fixed/avoided, you still have more.