[cryptbe]

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.

[pbsd]

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.

[tptacek]

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