Sage and Elliptic Curves: P256 and secp256k1
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3 min readNov 7, 2022
Our world of trust on the Internet is built on a foundation of elliptic curves. Two of the most important of these are NIST P-256 and secp256k1 (as used in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tor). For this, we can use Sage to model our curves:
In this case, we have the NIST P-256 curve, and which has the form of:
