[Cryptography] Ah, The Circles of Life

[Kent Borg]

On 11/06/2013 02:13 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> What makes you think that purely random parameters are good? Sometimes 
> they aren't -- think s-boxes.

Yes, only when they are.

-kb, the Kent who was only noting that some free association starting 
from Schneier can easily lead back to Schneier.


P.S.  I didn't say where the article was:

   https://www.schneier.com/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/