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Given how much more favored ECDSA and ECDH is these days, i recommend teaching elliptic curves. They're actually quite simple to understand mathematically if yo
by goalieca 1y ago
Given how much more favored ECDSA and ECDH is these days, i recommend teaching elliptic curves. They're actually quite simple to understand mathematically if you want a shallow comprehension.
- supernetworks_ 1y agoThe task for teaching is much harder now as these need to be combined into hybrid PQC protocols
- Krutonium 1y agoSure, but teaching the original as a fundamental building block would still be just that.
- csmantle 1y agoThe undergrad lectures I took placed almost equal emphasis on crypto over Zp and crypto over EC. For most students without deep abstract algebra backgrounds, introduction to operations and principles are more friendly and tractable over Zp.