elliptic-curves
2 posts tagged elliptic-curves.
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The Log Was Never the Weak Part: How Discrete-Log Cryptography Actually Breaks
For a well-chosen group the discrete log is optimally hard. Every faster break exploits the group's structure, not the log -- only Shor survives a clean one.
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The Doorway Into the Group: A Field Guide to Hashing a String Onto an Elliptic Curve (RFC 9380)
Turning a string into an elliptic-curve point is a two-decade problem behind a one-line API. Why H(m)*G and hunt-and-peck both fail, and how RFC 9380 fixes it.