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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.

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PeterisP  2 years ago

Redundancy, so if one backdoor is closed/fixed/avoided, you still have more.

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