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tptacek on Dec 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A gentle introduction to elliptic-curve cryptograp...

Regarding the SHA-1 constants:

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/10829/why-initiali...

Your latter example seems to be about the Dual-EC RNG, which is not an ECC encryption algorithm.

orbifold on Jan 4, 2015 [–]

Ah that is good to know. Yes the latter example was not exactly on point, just meant as a general illustration of possible vulnerabilties.

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