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fidotron • yesterday at 7:33 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It doesn't prove anything about the core part of the suspicion, which is they were selected using some undisclosed criteria, which may make them weaker or stronger than some other random numbers.

You are entirely familiar with the precedent of the DES s boxes of course, where that is exactly what happened.


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JumpCrisscross • yesterday at 7:35 PM

> which may make them weaker or stronger than some other random numbers

Are there non-trivial weaker and stronger seeds for this category of elliptic curves?

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