#hash-to-curve

The Doorway Into the Group: A Field Guide to Hashing a String Onto an Elliptic Curve (RFC 9380)

Jul 12, 2026

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.