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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tldr would be that there are no safe ECC curves in TLS? Yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

P256 isn't known to be insecure if implemented right, it's just harder to implement right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The WRC deals with unsafe curves all the time. I think picking a couple of spots on some of their curves at high speed would be interesting. Samir has been known to break some of these...