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by tptacek 4663 days ago
The only thing you want not to happen is for software to start generating and negotiating its own curves, because that then requires all interoperable implementations to parse and validate random curves from attackers.
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No, I didn't say that everyone generates their own curves. I meant the security community should generate our own curves. Somebody should email Thomas Pornin.
There are already several alternative curve sets, satisfying various degrees of paranoia:

- http://certivox.org/display/EXT/CertiVox+Standard+Curves

- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5639

- curve25519 and the other djb et al curves.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were saying that.