<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Also, Fred, I re-read your post and wanted to either start a quick discussion/warn you about elliptic curves. According to the NSA: "<span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">the growth of elliptic curve use has bumped up against the fact of continued progress in the research on quantum computing, which has made it clear that <b class="">elliptic curve cryptography is not the long term solution many once hoped it would be.</b></span><b class="">”</b></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">The NSA has deprecated ECC, whether or not that means that some foreign actor has a crack or if they are that worried about quantum computing is to be seen, but for now it seems like we should be moving away from ECC. </span></div></body></html>