Why “ecdsa” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Factoring is for RSA. The best non-quantum attack against ECDSA is meet-in-the-middle brute force, with sqrt complexity. With RSA you can check if any keys in the world have any…
by cowlevel · Oct 21, 2026
And then for the next 10 years APNIC wrote posts about how actually using ECDSA broke resolvers. It's going to settle into general usability at just about the time cryptographer…
by tptacek · Oct 21, 2026
ECDSA was added to DNSSEC 3 years before that blog post in april 2012 (rfc6605).
by GoblinSlayer · Oct 21, 2026
I suspect that they read the article last Friday about Claude finding the origin of the ECDSA constants. That was only a few hours before Google received the vulnerability repor…
by cvwright · Oct 21, 2026
> Added Lua patterns(7) support for relayd(8) filter rules; improved glob(7) documentation. > Added ECDSA support to the relayd(8) CA privsep engine. These are really fantastic.
by paulnpace · Oct 20, 2026
previously discussed; Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 )
by Doohickey-d · Oct 19, 2026
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