On 10/8/23, jdb10...@yahoo.com <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote: > https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bounty-offered-for-secret-nsa-seeds-behind-nist-elliptic-curves-algo/
Govts Politicians and Power aren't in it to give people strong crypto, nor strong money. Everyone already knows the NIST curves are broken in principle, "rigidity" being of note for this article, but in a number of other ways too. https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ So this bounty would be better applied towards validating crypto, creating new crypto, making new crypto apps for users, leveraging PQC and composition, making OS environments more secure for crypto, running a nextgen cryptocurrency competition, etc. Beware the rise of Quantum Cryptanalysis, there's a lot of black and private money being thrown at developing Quantum Computing, and the needed bits will show up in public sooner than people think.
