I started working on an elliptic curve primer just before the holidays when I stumbled across this really excellent series of posts by Andrea Corbellini:
http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/ http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/23/elliptic-curve-cryptography-finite-fields-and-discrete-logarithms/ http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/30/elliptic-curve-cryptography-ecdh-and-ecdsa/ http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/06/08/elliptic-curve-cryptography-breaking-security-and-a-comparison-with-rsa/ When I saw those, I kind of ran out of steam because I felt I was covering much of the same territory and not doing as good a job as Andrea did. I found myself thrashing over whether or not it was worthwhile finishing my own effort, so I thought I would ask on these lists. My incomplete draft can be found here: http://flownet.com/ron/garret_ec_primer.pdf If you are interested in this sort of thing I would appreciate it if you could take a look and tell me if you think it adds enough value to be worth finishing. Thanks, rg _______________________________________________ Curves mailing list Curves@moderncrypto.org https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/curves