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Re: [Cryptography] Bruce Schneier has gotten seriously spooked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sun Sep 8 02:49:01 2013
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Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 11:30:41 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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On 2013-09-08 4:36 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>
> But are the standard ECC curves really secure? Schneier sounds like
> he's got
> some innovative math in his next paper if he thinks he can show that they
> aren't.
Schneier cannot show that they are trapdoored, because he does not know
where the magic numbers come from.
To know if trapdoored, have to know where those magic numbers come from.
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