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Comment by KAMSPioneer

Two very closely-related exceptions, and a host of very closely-related copycats. Essentially, one problem space which makes up a small (I would say) percentage of the use of cryptography. In terms of daily impact on the lives of random folks, anyway.

I never said secp256k1 was depreciated (nor deprecated), I said that I have seen recommendations from people far more knowledgeable than I who say, effectively, don't use it unless forced to interoperate with Bitcoin. For example: https://soatok.blog/2022/05/19/guidance-for-choosing-an-elli...

The above link, in case you don't want to read through, basically says "use ed25519. If you can't do that, use secp256r1." This tracks with what I have read from others, and with the direction Filo is taking, so I consider it pretty good advice.

parent KAMSPioneer 3 years ago

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