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For me this article was not nearly deep enough for me to understand elliptical curve cryptography. What I learned was the equation of an elliptical curve and th
by punpunia 1y ago
For me this article was not nearly deep enough for me to understand elliptical curve cryptography. What I learned was the equation of an elliptical curve and that it is used in cryptography, the rest was inscrutable.
- hug 1y agoThe entire problem of the article is summed up this paragraph: > The ECDLP involves finding the integer k such that P=k⋅G, where P is a point on the curve, G is a known point (the generator point), and k is the ephemeral key. The difficulty of this problem is what makes ECC secure. So uh. What is P? Why do I want to work it out? What’s G? Why do I know it, or not know it? Also k. I assume I know maybe one of these values, but maybe I know none. Why does any of this make anything secure? I get, in general, that knowing numbers that someone else doesn’t know is good for me to be good at security with someone else, but is it? … just not good.
- nxpnsv 1y agoI feel this is what came out of the author’s llm chat of choice…
- lelanthran 1y ago> What I learned was the equation of an elliptical curve and that it is used in cryptography, the rest was inscrutable. It's not inscrutable, it's missing.