An approach to public-key cryptography built on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields, offering the same security as older methods such as RSA with much shorter keys, and widely used in mobile and embedded systems.
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Core PrincipleElliptic curve cryptography is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. 1 Connections
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1. Elliptic-curve cryptography - Wikipedia
History section, opening sentence
The use of elliptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently by Neal Koblitz and Victor S. Miller in 1985.
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Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields.
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