• Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. ECC...
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  • In cryptography, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) offers a variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses elliptic-curve...
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    mathematics, an elliptic curve is a smooth, projective, algebraic curve of genus one, on which there is a specified point O. An elliptic curve is defined over...
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  • cipher. It is a variant of the Diffie–Hellman protocol using elliptic-curve cryptography. The following example illustrates how a shared key is established...
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    over finite fields is widely used in elliptic curve cryptography. Applications of Edwards curves to cryptography were developed by Daniel J. Bernstein...
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  • elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). The literature presents this operation as scalar multiplication, as written in Hessian form of an elliptic curve....
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  • operation) – symmetric encryption Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) – digital signatures Elliptic Curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) – key agreement...
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  • Curve25519 (redirect from Curve 25519)
    In cryptography, Curve25519 is an elliptic curve used in elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) offering 128 bits of security (256-bit key size) and designed...
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  • Dual_EC_DRBG (Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator) is an algorithm that was presented as a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number...
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  • Hyperelliptic curve cryptography is similar to elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) insofar as the Jacobian of a hyperelliptic curve is an abelian group...
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  • of algebraic geometry, an elliptic curve E over a field K has an associated quadratic twist, that is another elliptic curve which is isomorphic to E over...
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  • because no such algorithm is known to satisfy this property; elliptic curve cryptography comes the closest with an effective security of roughly half...
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  • signature scheme. Pairing-based cryptography relies on hardness assumptions separate from e.g. the elliptic-curve cryptography, which is older and has been...
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  • hyperelliptic curve cryptography and the independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography. Koblitz received his B.A. in mathematics from Harvard University...
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  • that implements CNG is housed in Bcrypt.dll. CNG also supports elliptic curve cryptography which, because it uses shorter keys for the same expected level...
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    The curve set is named after mathematician Harold M. Edwards. Elliptic curves are important in public key cryptography and twisted Edwards curves are...
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    Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (category Cryptography standards)
    quantum-resistant cryptography. The suite includes: Advanced Encryption Standard with 256 bit keys Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature...
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  • In public-key cryptography, Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) is a digital signature scheme using a variant of Schnorr signature based...
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  • MQV (category Elliptic curve cryptography)
    an arbitrary finite group, and, in particular, elliptic curve groups, where it is known as elliptic curve MQV (ECMQV). MQV was initially proposed by Alfred...
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  • In mathematics, the Montgomery curve is a form of elliptic curve introduced by Peter L. Montgomery in 1987, different from the usual Weierstrass form...
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  • NIST SP 800-90A (category Broken cryptography algorithms)
    versions included a fourth generator, Dual_EC_DRBG (based on elliptic curve cryptography). Dual_EC_DRBG was later reported to probably contain a kleptographic...
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  • KCDSA (category Elliptic curve cryptography)
    {\displaystyle GF(p)} , but an elliptic curve variant (EC-KCDSA) is also specified. KCDSA requires a collision-resistant cryptographic hash function that can...
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  • ECC patents (category Elliptic curve cryptography)
    Patent-related uncertainty around elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), or ECC patents, is one of the main factors limiting its wide acceptance. For example...
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  • XDH assumption (category Elliptic curve cryptography)
    hardness assumption used in elliptic curve cryptography. The XDH assumption holds if there exist certain subgroups of elliptic curves which have useful properties...
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  • professor, creator of elliptic curve cryptography and hyperelliptic curve cryptography Doug Stinson, professor, author of Cryptography: Theory and Practice...
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  • exchange Digital Signature Algorithm Elliptic-curve cryptography Key exchange Key management Key size Public-key cryptography Rabin cryptosystem Trapdoor function...
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    Bernstein proposed the use of a (twisted) Edwards curve, Curve25519, as a basis for elliptic curve cryptography; it is employed in Ed25519 implementation of...
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  • theory, and more recently in cryptography and Digital Signature Authentication (See elliptic curve cryptography and elliptic curve DSA). While in number theory...
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  • This curve was suggested for application in elliptic curve cryptography, because arithmetic in this curve representation is faster and needs less memory...
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    Doche–Icart–Kohel curve is a form in which an elliptic curve can be written. It is a special case of the Weierstrass form and it is also important in elliptic-curve cryptography...
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