SafeCurves: Choosing safe curves for elliptic-curve cryptography

Everything djb does is high quality, above anything else available in the field at the time.

In the qmail days, his attitude drove people away (which is stupid, I think: Would you rather have to deal with djb's attitude, or deal with compromise?), but now it seems he goes to greater length to accommodate users.

You don't have to go the whole djb way http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/ - every small thing is useful.

Personally, I preferred qmail+ezmlm to everything else when I ran my own servers (up until 2002), and I still prefer daemontools and redo to everything else.

If you want to try this out yourself, be sure to check out https://github.com/impl/libcurvecpr for a solid implementation of djb's CurveCP in an easy-to-implement & understand pluggable library.

I'm no crypto expert, but I would like to learn a little more about ECC. Are there any books or websites in particular that I should look into? I have a copy of Applied Cryptography and plan on eventually reading through more of it.

I only ask because it seems like there have been a lot of advancements in this field recently (from what I've seen on the internet).

Oh someone needs to get Qualys (ssllabs) to take a look at that.

The rigidity page calls schemes "fully rigid" when the scheme used to select their generator point is unspecified.

This is unfortunate.