[Cryptography] IETF discussion on new ECC curves.

[Richard Outerbridge]

On 2014-08-08 (220), at 11:20:16, John Kelsey <crypto.jmk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does it make sense to have a small set of curves that everyone uses?  Or would it be better to have every application or even every user generate their own curve, using some process that would convince skeptics that the curves had been generated randomly?  
> 
> —John

The more the merrier, if there were also an agreed upon way to tell
bad randomly generated curves from good ones.
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