On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Adam Back <a...@cypherspace.org> wrote:
> Right but weak parameter arguments are very dangerous - the US national > infrastructure they're supposed to be protecting could be weakened when > someone else finds the weakness. As the fallout from the Snowden debacle has shown (with estimates of the damage to US businesses in the tens of billions) the NSA seems to be unconcerned with the blowback potential of doing things that are potentially damaging when discovered. I wouldn't put it past them to intentionally weaken the NIST curves. That said, my gut feeling is they probably didn't. -- Tony Arcieri
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