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\section{Summary}  In Requirements for Standard Elliptic Curves\cite{Lochter_2014}, the designers of the Brainpool curves gives two justifications for selecting a random prime; one is that a special prime does not give an special performance advantages in their environment, and secondly, the special primes make blinding operations more difficult. This paper has shown that the effort required to perform blinding when using a special prime has been overestimated. overestimated; there appears to be ways to perform the required blinding at modest additional expense.