Lecture 29: Elliptic Curve Cryptography

William Stein

Date: Math 124 $\quad$ HARVARD UNIVERSITY $\quad$ Fall 2001

Today's lecture is about an application of elliptic curves to cryptography.

Disclaimer: I do not endorse breaking laws, and give the examples below as a pedagogical tool in the hope of making the mathematics in our course more fun and relevant to everyday life. I don't think I have violated the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, because I have given very few details about Microsoft's actual protocols, and I've given absolutely no source code.