supposedly secp256k1 is "insecure" *cough* yes that's why bitcoin's got the highest market cap
check out safecurves... there is a big margin of opinion in cryptographic security that needs to be understood
lukechampine is a cryptographer i respect for his brutal honesty about his opinions about things, after reading his great piece on CSPRNGs
bruce schneier is also great but the dude has been compromised by the woke crowd and he is biased against bitcoin so anything he might say against sha256 or secp256k1 needs to be taken with a grain of salt
there is a fashion for a few years now that edwards twisted curves are "superior" to other types of elliptic curves, and BLS12-381 is very popular with shitcoiners
but, being that neither of these two targets even taken as a mass represent a worthy cryptanalysis attack target worth studying, or that most such crappy people who would try to do things like this are usually a bit retarded
my opinion is that if sha256 was weak and secp256k1 was weak then why is it still secure?
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2024-01-19 15:26:02
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