Encryption: need some help understanding a complex subject, In regards to encrypting ones hardrive, a redditor said "I recommend against using ECC(Elliptic Curve Cryptography)...

...as I understand, the parameters of at least some of the curves were chosen by the NSA. It's at least theoretically possible that the NSA has backdoored these or that the NSA is aware of curves that are crackable for them but that that knowledge is not known outside intelligence circles. As I understand it's almost like a seed or pre-computed bit that makes encryption faster and able to use smaller keys. But I've heard talk about where the curves …

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