ECCHacks

A gentle introduction
to elliptic-curve cryptography

Introduction

The clock:

Real clock

Finiteness:

Finite fields

Elliptic curves:

Edwards curves

Introduction

This site accompanies the talk "ECCHacks: A gentle introduction to elliptic-curve cryptography" at 31C3. A video of the talk is available. Slides from the talk are also available.

Warning: These scripts explain what must be computed, but they do not perform the computations in constant time.

ECCHacks is joint work by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange.

Version: This is version 2015.07.08 of the index.html web page.