• 2025-07-01

Curve 25519 – Elliptic Curves

8.5.4 Curve 25519 Curve 25519 is defined in RFC 7748, where it is referred to as curve25519. It was proposed in 2005 by the American-German cryptographer Dan Bernstein [24] and attracted interest from the wider cryptographic community after the discovery of a potential backdoor in the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual_EC_DRBG) algorithm…

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