> Elliptic curves are just a scalar private key multiplied with a static point to make a public key To a lot of people, this will sound like "Monads are just

> Elliptic curves are just a scalar private key multiplied with a static point to make a public key To a lot of people, this will sound like "Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors" Basically, every high school student knows what prime numbers are, what factors are, what exponentiation is, what modulo (remainder) is. A scientific calculator will have all the functions for you to do RSA encryption by hand with small primes. You need more math courses to understand what it means to multiply a point by a scalar along a curve.