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Why are you describing the backdoor in DUAL_EC_DRBG, without referencing/naming it?

That's separate. It *is* an issue of NUMS not being used, which is *analogous*, but it's different to the lack of NUMS generation of constants in curves defined by NIST etc.

(The link is certainly relevant though, of course; these details, in case you weren't aware, were already known in the bitcoin world in 2013).
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BladeRunner 2y ago

I'm not saying that ppl should trust ed25519 -or any other encryption- but I am saying I wouldn't trust anything that NIST is advocating. Personally I have some reservations about ECC in general. I brought up Duel_EC__DRBG to illustrate how the NSA works. They paid RSA Security $10 million in a secret deal to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in the RSA BSAFE cryptography library, which resulted in RSA Security becoming the most important distributor of the insecure algorithm. NIST is not your friend.

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