Project
NIST
The U.S. standards agency that published FIPS 186-2 and SP 800-90A
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is the U.S. Commerce Department agency that publishes federal cryptographic standards. It adopted ECDSA in FIPS 186-2 in 2000, and on April 21, 2014 it removed the Dual_EC_DRBG generator from its draft random-number guidance, citing the lack of public confidence in the algorithm.
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- NIST
“Based on its own evaluation, and in response to the lack of public confidence in the algorithm, NIST removed Dual_EC_DRBG”
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Protocol Research
Bitcoin Skipped the NIST Curve a 1997 Clock Just Explained
Claude traced NIST's curve seeds to a Unix clock in 1997, and Bitcoin has run all along on secp256k1, a curve built a different way.