#Cryptography
2 articles tagged Cryptography. At twelve articles this topic starts lifting the whole site in search.
Timeline
-
Claude traced the NIST P-256 curve seeds in 30 minutes — the answer was a 1997 computer clock
-
What is elliptic curve cryptography? How a 256-bit key matches 3,072-bit RSA — and secures this page
All articles
-
Tech · 3 min readClaude traced the NIST P-256 curve seeds in 30 minutes — the answer was a 1997 computer clock
Finding — the seeds were clock-seeded lrand48 output from 1997–98, not hashed phrases
-
Tech · 3 min readWhat is elliptic curve cryptography? How a 256-bit key matches 3,072-bit RSA — and secures this page
Principle — adding a point to itself n times is easy; finding n from the result is not