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Topic: Magic numbers in ECC - Is this a concern for Bitcoin? (Read 1157 times)

legendary
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think it was discussed in thread a couple of days ago just do a search
sr. member
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Saw this post on stackexchange:

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/10263/should-we-trust-the-nist-recommended-ecc-parameters

and an article on Slashdot today:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/09/11/1224252/are-the-nist-standard-elliptic-curves-back-doored

I'm pretty sure bitcoin uses ECC for public/private keys.  Does it use the NIST FIPS 186-3 standard numbers?  and if so, is there any concern among the developers about a possible NSA backdoor?
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