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Backdoors, Incompetence, and Elliptic Curves
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John Cook
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Oct. 21, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
Cryptography
Elliptic Curves
Cryptography
Elliptic Curves
NIST
security flaws
Summary
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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