Barebones Curve 25519

Beauty comes in many forms

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Don’t you think there’s those wizards who perform black magic on the Intenret, and their secret magic is … elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). There’s Curve 25519, and NIST 512, with Montgomory this, and Weierstrass that, and base points, and private keys scalars and public key points. It’s a pace for wizards, but it’s not actually that difficult to understand. In this article, I…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.