Bounty offered for secret NSA seeds behind NIST elliptic curves algo

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On 10/8/23, jdb10987 at yahoo.com <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bounty-offered-for-secret-nsa-seeds-behind-nist-elliptic-curves-algo/

Govts Politicians and Power aren't in it to give people
strong crypto, nor strong money.

Everyone already knows the NIST curves are broken in principle,
"rigidity" being of note for this article, but in a number of other ways too.

https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/

So this bounty would be better applied towards
validating crypto, creating new crypto, making new crypto
apps for users, leveraging PQC and composition,
making OS environments more secure for crypto,
running a nextgen cryptocurrency competition, etc.

Beware the rise of Quantum Cryptanalysis, there's a lot
of black and private money being thrown at developing
Quantum Computing, and the needed bits will show
up in public sooner than people think.