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Title: Magic numbers in ECC - Is this a concern for Bitcoin? Post by: epetroel on September 11, 2013, 01:27:15 PM Saw this post on stackexchange:
http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/10263/should-we-trust-the-nist-recommended-ecc-parameters and an article on Slashdot today: http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/09/11/1224252/are-the-nist-standard-elliptic-curves-back-doored I'm pretty sure bitcoin uses ECC for public/private keys. Does it use the NIST FIPS 186-3 standard numbers? and if so, is there any concern among the developers about a possible NSA backdoor? Title: Re: Magic numbers in ECC - Is this a concern for Bitcoin? Post by: Bitcoinpro on September 11, 2013, 01:35:01 PM think it was discussed in thread a couple of days ago just do a search
Title: Re: Magic numbers in ECC - Is this a concern for Bitcoin? Post by: Mike Hearn on September 11, 2013, 02:17:55 PM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289795.0
Title: Re: Magic numbers in ECC - Is this a concern for Bitcoin? Post by: saif313 on September 11, 2013, 07:33:34 PM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289795.0 thanks for link and information |