If p256 actually is compromised then Passkeys will hand control of the vast majority of accounts and retail crypto to the government. 

It is not acceptable that we do not know the source of the coefficients in the p256 curve.

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it’s fine for you to be concerned about a secp256r1 back door 

but feels like a stretch to prevent anyone who wants to (almost everyone) from being able to use their phones to interact with ethereum

such a huge unlock even if it was backdoored still be net positive given # of use cases where that doesn’t matter

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Tyranny of defaults will be so powerful here. Wish Apple had pushed for a curve with no shadow of a doubt.

imo incorporate it by being interoperable, design around it, and build with zero trust principles

what is sufficiently decentralized?

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