[Cryptography] Ah, The Circles of Life
Steven Bellovin
smb at cs.columbia.edu
Wed Nov 6 14:13:15 EST 2013
On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:38 35AM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> I saw a tweet by Bruce Schneier about elliptic curve cryptography, recommending an article on Ars Technica.
>
> I start reading it, am reminded of the mysteriously chosen parameters of the NIST RNG, and that I read about how to choose such things in a public and honest way.
>
> And that for makes me wonder about pi, but in hex. (Can't remember the question before, but all things are new to me at least once.) So I google "pi in hex".
>
What makes you think that purely random parameters are good?
Sometimes they aren't -- think s-boxes.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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