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by wmf 3892 days ago
Bitcoin uses P-256 that the NSA just deprecated.
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stevendhansen 3892 days ago
Nope, by a stroke of luck Bitcoin uses secp256k1 instead, which is not included in Suite B.
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viraptor 3892 days ago
It uses Secp256k1 which does not come from NIST.
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