[bmulcahy]

>but because the mechanism by which they were generated would result in whole large classes of broken curves that academic cryptography and mathematics would have caught by now

Might such discoveries by academics be forcibly suppressed by government agencies?

[mattsan]

I would argue that suppression of public individuals would be much more difficult than say the NSA just scooping up the best mathematicians in that field

[tptacek]

No.