Pro Cryptography and Cryptanalysis: Creating Advanced Algorithms with C# and .NET

© Marius Iulian Mihailescu and Stefania Loredana Nita 2021

M. I. Mihailescu, S. L. NitaPro Cryptography and Cryptanalysis https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6367-9_10

10. Elliptic-Curve Cryptography

Marius Iulian Mihailescu¹   and Stefania Loredana Nita¹

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Bucharest, Romania

 

Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is a public-key cryptography approach based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. ECC can be used in cryptography applications and primitives, such as key agreements, digital signatures, and pseudo-random generators. They can be used for operations such as encryption, an operation that is achieved through a combination between key agreements with a symmetric encryption scheme. Some other interesting usages can be ...