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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption
(www.newscientist.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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Before, elliptical curve encryption has been hailed as the new golden standard, only too bad there is a serious weakness where if you know the seed you can crack the code. And guess who has the seed? Starts with N and ends with SA.
Goddamn NASA and their meddling!
And here I thought it was the National Emergency Services Academy.
Curve25519 should be fine.