Timeline for Is secp256r1 more secure than secp256k1?
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| Apr 20, 2020 at 7:55 | comment | added | lily wilson | secp256k1 is not a Koblitz curve and is a prime field curve. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 10:59 | comment | added | Woodstock | I'd rather use a curve that wasn't specified by the NSA tbf. | |
| Aug 13, 2015 at 17:33 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | I would still say that prime field curves are much more common both in protocols and in the field. If that would however be a major reason not to use them then we would still be living in caves. | |
| Aug 12, 2015 at 15:58 | comment | added | Rushyo | Koblitz curves ARE included in FIPS 186-4, the NIST standard, and plenty of other RFCs. The approach of cherry picking a bunch of standards that don't include these curves (including some which patently wouldn't, such as the Brainpool RFC) to make it appear that Koblitz curves should be avoided is immensely mendacious. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 8:30 | comment | added | tryagain | @otus: Just citing, not evaluating. But I think the fact, that Koblitz curves are no part of many selections is true and at least very interessting. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 0:15 | vote | accept | ripper234 | ||
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| Sep 4, 2014 at 18:17 | comment | added | otus | That page is confused in many ways. The writer seems to think NIST P-256 is the same curve as Brainpool's. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 15:24 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by tryagain | ||
| Sep 4, 2014 at 15:13 | history | answered | tryagain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |