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"independent cryptography community" - I actually LOLed at this

I don't think that "community" would accept any kind of answer as truthful so why waste the time...

It’s independently verifiable. What do you mean?

One of the top comments in this very thread suggests the seed timestamps were maybe selected specifically for purpose.

After Dual_EC_DRBG, there is no longer justification for any attitude towards the NSA other than suspicion and skepticism. Everything should be assumed a potential attack vector and thoroughly explored. I thank the community for carrying this torch for so many years.

NSA != NIST

Yes, and the NSA generated the seeds for NIST. This is public knowledge and is acknowledged in the article.

It has been the entire focus of the backdoor concerns since the curves were adopted over 20 years ago and is the motivation for the work behind this article.

It's not a crazy question to ask / theory to posit. The next message down explains why it's unlikely and the whole conversation sounds reasonable to me.

The cryptgraphy community is pretty reasonable folks, on the whole.

So is Earth's sphericity.

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