Re: [cryptography] What's the point of using non-NIST ECC Curves?

If the NIST curves are weak in a way that we don't understand, this means that ECC has properties that we don't understand. Thus, if you don't trust the NIST Prime curves, does it make sense to trust any ECC curves at all? All maths has properties we do not understand. the question is not

[cryptography] SSL bug: This POODLE Bites: Exploiting The SSL 3.0 Fallback

https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf SSL 3.0 [RFC6101] is an obsolete and insecure protocol. While for most practical purposes it has been replaced by its successors TLS 1.0 [RFC2246], TLS 1.1 [RFC4346], and TLS 1.2 [RFC5246], many TLS implementations remain backwards­compatible with SSL