by muragekibicho
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- It's super nit-picky of me to point out: the double and add visualization is a meme among professional elliptic curve guys.
You are in fact drawing a hyperbola between points on an (almost) circular plane. However, you won't find this published anywhere idk why.
It's just one of those things you get from spending 3 years in office hours with the 73 year old math professor who's worked on elliptic curves since they became mainstream in the 1980's.
by robinsonb5
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- As someone with only the vaguest ideas of how cryptography works under the hood (and none at all about how elliptic curves might be useful) this turned out to be the primer I didn't know I needed! I found it really accessible and well-presented.
by celurian92
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- TBH i needed this when i was working on my undergrad thesis with ECC and ECDHA but thanks author for making this. Helped me remember all the fundamentals.
- I'm really not into math and got really lost in the second half of "Adding points on a curve". Just don't understand what the author wants to tell me with the grouping and the role of the identity element, which is called infinity but is zero?
However, after looking at the next section and playing with the chart I immediately got the idea where the whole article is heading. Interesting to see how this works.
- Seeing the below error when visiting the site.
“This site can’t provide a secure connection
growingswe.com sent an invalid response.
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR”
- related - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEt-D8xZmgE
- Please use a variable-width typeface for readability
by pestatije
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- there must be tons of functions that are easy to process one way but almost impossible the other.
i get the feeling there is more to it than finding such a function, but the article doesnt get into that
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