The FIPS stuff does have some good engineering behind it. Respect for that. I know from past interactions you know what engineering, design, and architecture is, Tim.
The iceberg, for me, is owned by Civilization and Its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud. It is a big-ole mess underneath with conflicting voices, some booming with authority, but most is based in shifting sand out of our control (mostly). Quite appropriate in either context.
My personal take is that this changes nothing. It just feels good, man. I can relate to this, though. I work for a future culture, not this one.
Also, I'm using Ed25519, not secp256k1 in my stuff, now, as it is a pragmatic choice. Of course, that diverges from the entire ecosystem you folks are building. For me, simple is "can I just open a page in a browser with a script tag and render?". Ed25519 is supported natively in modern browsers. I get it that for anything sophisticated, particularly some of the visualization stuff I use, the NPM ecosystem and a bundler like Rollup are required, but *whatever* I build has to have various features/views of the data at rest with < 100 lines of code. Sorry... an overloaded comment... BUT, I do want to stress my first sentence.
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2026-05-23 14:12:22 UTC
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