What’s the “Ed” in Ed25519?
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4 min readApr 30, 2022
Curve 25519 is one of the most trusted elliptic curve methods, and there’s a chance you are using it on a daily basis. With this, you may be connecting to a remote service and performing a key exchange using X25519. This is a key exchange method that uses Curve 25519. Basically, we have a Montgomery curve defined by:
And here is a plot:
