On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org> wrote: > This proposal promotes ECC. > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance > > Schneier: "Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over > elliptic-curve systems; the latter have constants that the NSA > influences when they can." > > He elaborates in the comments: > > "I no longer trust the constants. I believe the NSA has manipulated them > through their relationships with industry." > > Does that affect your proposal?
I don't think other prominent cryptographers necessarily agree: http://www.slideshare.net/astamos/bh-slides https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/376710977669984256 Cheers, Dirkjan -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
