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Re: [Cryptography] Ah, The Circles of Life
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Nov 6 14:44:57 2013
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From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <527A546B.80307@borg.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:13:15 -0500
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:38 35AM, Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org> wrote:
> I saw a tweet by Bruce Schneier about elliptic curve cryptography, recommending an article on Ars Technica.
>
> I start reading it, am reminded of the mysteriously chosen parameters of the NIST RNG, and that I read about how to choose such things in a public and honest way.
>
> And that for makes me wonder about pi, but in hex. (Can't remember the question before, but all things are new to me at least once.) So I google "pi in hex".
>
What makes you think that purely random parameters are good?
Sometimes they aren't -- think s-boxes.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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