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Backdoors, Incompetence, and Elliptic Curves

· John Cook · Oct. 21, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
Cryptography Elliptic Curves Cryptography Elliptic Curves NIST security flaws
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This blog post discusses recent news on NIST elliptic curves, highlighting concerns regarding security involving broken certificates and potential backdoors, referencing previous work by the author related to the NSA.
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