Filippo Valsorda describes it as “a call to arms” to “help fill in a page of cryptographic history.” The former Cloudflare/Golang cryptographer has announced a $12,288 “bounty” for finding the seeds of five elliptic curves produced by the NSA in 1999 that have since become an industry standard. Valsorda calls them the “elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography,” noting that they’re used, among other things, for the certificates securing millions of websites.

Source: The New Stack