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The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
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Hacker News | Oct 16, 2026 | aburan28
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The NIST elliptic curves (P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384, and P-521) were published by NIST in FIPS 186-2 in 2000. They were generated at random according to ANSI X9. 62 by taking an arbitrary seed, hashing it with SHA-1, and using the output to derive some of the parameters. Maybe there was just a bug in one of the algorithms that returned the wrong result half the time; these calculations, which we can now do with off-the-shelf software in minutes, were still very much state-of-the-art in 1997. accepted 36th seed 25e5[... ]: not published accepted 1562nd seed d09b[...
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