NSA advisory sparks concern of secret advance ushering in cryptoapocalypse

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http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/nsa-advisory-sparks-concern-of-secret-advance-ushering-in-cryptoapocalypse/

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Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10430367 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10426518.

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The advisory recommended backing away from plans to deploy elliptic curve cryptography, a form of public key cryptography that the NSA spent the previous 20 years promoting

or they can't break it?

https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://eprint.iacr.org/201...

should we switch to rsa-3072 instead ?