frphank on Nostr: What's the association? Is this another NSA thing? Why the shift from secp256r1 to ...
What's the association? Is this another NSA thing?
Why the shift from secp256r1 to ed25519 even? Never understood what was wrong with the former. It's been kind of deeply ingrained in things now, the shift is just an unnecessary distraction.
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2025-04-07 15:06:26Event JSON
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