It does.

> The NIST standard describes what is known as an "elliptic curve-based deterministic random bit generator."

And also links in the first paragraph to: http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/785571-itlbul2013-0...

Parent is refering to public key pinning. Chrome for instance has been doing it the last couple years [1].

Also see Moxie's comment in this very thread. [2]

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6381673

Weird. This has been submitted in less than two hours, has 90 points, but it is at the bottom of the front page. Other stories from 6+ hours ago with less points are at the top.

This has been the case for nearly all NSA related stories in the past week. There is a lot of flagging going on. I'd be interested in a data dump of who is doing the flagging and getting an idea if it's an indicator that the HN community as a whole doesn't want these stories or if it's just a small, but vigilant subset.

Recognition memory [1] at work.

Sometimes we also use Cued Recall [2] to retrieve events or information from memory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_memory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_%28memory%29#Cued_recal...