Re: Strange crypto choices

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What, you haven't heard that NSA secretly discovered a way to compute discrete log on ed25519? And while you are reading this, they're remotely installing a  brain wave interrupter in your smartphone and desktop.

And they're secretly instigating lithium shortages, so posting like this thread could multiply.

<In spirit of this thread, I don't think smileys are even necessary>
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Regards,
Uri 

On 5/29/18, 14:03, "openssh-unix-dev on behalf of Yegor Ievlev" <openssh-unix-dev-bounces+uri=ll.mit.edu@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of koops1997@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Also, Jerry Solinas, the person listed as an author of the curves,
    also is the author of DUAL_EC_DRBG.
    
    On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:43 AM, Damien Miller <djm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    > On Tue, 29 May 2018, Damien Miller wrote:
    >
    >> We're aware of those arguments but don't find them convincing enough to
    >> switch early.
    >
    > (but we will be switching to ssh-ed25519 and probably soon) 

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