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Bounty to Recover NIST's Elliptic Curve Seeds
This is a fun challenge: The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ’90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. How were the seeds generated? Rumor has it that they are in turn hashes of English sentences, but the person who picked them, Dr. Jerry Solinas, passed away in…
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- 17
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Security & PrivacyMath & Algorithms2023
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2023 | Bounty to Recover NIST's Elliptic Curve Seeds by vintagedave | 122 | 17 |
