With all the discussion around how NIST curves were generated, you might wonder: why don't we let sysadmins generate their own curves like Diffie-Hellman parameters?
Because it's a bad idea! Since the '90s we learned that the marginal advantages don't compensate at all for the added complexity.
Parameters are best fixed and standardized.
https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/parameters/?source=Mastodon
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