Category:Basic

Summary

This documentary gives a brief introduction into elliptic curve cryptography

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Elliptic curve cryptography is a part of asymmetric cryptography, it is based on the mathematical hard problem to find a solution for the elliptic curve discrete logarithm. The calculations are performed on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields, which means we compute points on a elliptic curve over finite field by applying the group operations double and add.

The scalar multiplication of a point on an elliptic curve over a finite field is equivalent to the exponentation of a number in a prime field, therefore the inversion is also called discrete logarithm.

First proposed application of elliptic curves in cryptography was random number generations, now ECC is widely used for key establishment and digital signature schemes.

Elliptic Curve Presentations

• Weierstrass form

${\displaystyle x^{2}=y^{3}}$

Standardized ECC

ECC problems