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On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, bad apple wrote:
Which luckily nobody outside the US uses, and nobody inside the US who hasn't been leant on in someway does either.
Ah, fair enough - I'm not an expert of crypto implementations.
"Note the FIPS module is not really not appropriate for where such use is not mandated as it does not have any technical virtues (security, performance, maintainability) with respect to the equivalent stock OpenSSL distributions."
Wow. Just wow.That's almost as amazing as the bit in the NIST standard where they say: don't just choose any two points P and Q, choose the ones we provided in the appendix. We've checked and they're safe, trust us.
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