[HN Gopher] We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library u...
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We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof
Author : crescit_eundo
Score : 35 points
Date : 2026-01-01 14:52 UTC (6 days ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.trailofbits.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.trailofbits.com)
| binkHN wrote:
| FYI: two vulnerabilities in elliptic, a widely used JavaScript
| library for elliptic curve cryptography
| some_furry wrote:
| The maintainer seems to have abandoned it:
| https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues
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| I wrote a shim library and posted it on their issue tracker:
| https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/343
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| Unfortunately, adoption seems slow. I'm talking with a few
| people about how to move the ecosystem to something more secure
| like noble-curves, but it's tricky.
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