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fejron NIST "strongly" suggests dropping its own encryption standard

It does.

> The NIST standard describes what is known as an "elliptic curve-based deterministic random bit generator."

And also links in the first paragraph to: http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/785571-itlbul2013-0...

fejron New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

Parent is refering to public key pinning. Chrome for instance has been doing it the last couple years [1].

Also see Moxie's comment in this very thread. [2]

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6381673

fejron New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

Weird. This has been submitted in less than two hours, has 90 points, but it is at the bottom of the front page. Other stories from 6+ hours ago with less points are at the top.

fejron I Asked 1000 Americans to Name a British City Other Than London

Recognition memory [1] at work.

Sometimes we also use Cued Recall [2] to retrieve events or information from memory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_memory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_%28memory%29#Cued_recal...