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Nigel Smart's Cryptography Made Simple is a great book which covers elliptic curve cryptography amougst many other topics; despite its name it's a very technica
by opus132 6y ago
Nigel Smart's Cryptography Made Simple is a great book which covers elliptic curve cryptography amougst many other topics; despite its name it's a very technical book, but it's easily accessible to anyone with a CS/EE/Maths/Physics degree.
You can grab a copy from SpringerLink for free at the moment here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-21936-3 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-21936-3
- ykevinator 6y agoI second this m
- thr0w__4w4y 6y agoAgreed. Also Christof Paar's book [1] and 25-episode YouTube series[2] do an excellent job of explaining not only elliptic curve cryptography, but also RSA and a lot of other cryptography, including symmetric ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. The blog post seems to be essentially, "I read these good posts on Ars [3] and F5 [4] [5] and here is my summary of my understanding of them". Nothing wrong with that, but the post has some issues and doesn't add anything to the sources cited IMO. [1] http://www.crypto-textbook.com/ http://www.crypto-textbook.com/ (ironic that https isn't available?!?!) [2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1usFRN4LCMcfIV7UjHNuQg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1usFRN4LCMcfIV7UjHNuQg [3] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/a-rel... [4] https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/real-cryptography-has-curves-making-the-case-for-ecc-20832 https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/real-cryptography-has-c... [5] https://youtu.be/dCvB-mhkT0w https://youtu.be/dCvB-mhkT0w