The Wonderful World of Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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8 min readJul 26, 2018
Introduction
So what protects your privacy and security probably more than anything else on the Internet? That will be Elliptic Curve , and especially:
y² = x³+ax+b
where 4a³+27b² ≠ 0 (and which is need to avoid singular points). The most popular curve is a Secp256k1 (or Curve 25519), and is defined with a=0 and b=7:
