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wmf
on Oct 22, 2015
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NSA panicked deprecation of suite B
Bitcoin uses P-256 that the NSA just deprecated.
stevendhansen
on Oct 22, 2015
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Nope, by a stroke of luck Bitcoin uses secp256k1 instead, which is not included in Suite B.
viraptor
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It uses Secp256k1 which does not come from NIST.
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