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tptacek • today at 7:12 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

This is devastating news... for an entire generation of NIST cryptography conspiracy theories.


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michaelt • today at 10:52 PM

Thank god NIST gifted us Dual_EC_DRBG, so I still have a NIST Elliptic Curve effort I can sneer at dismissively.

RSA was good enough for my grandfather, and it's good enough for me.

nickysielicki • today at 8:08 PM

It’s perplexing that NIST chose to burn so much trust and goodwill with the independent cryptography community instead of just explaining empirically that they really had nothing up their sleeve.

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