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Use curve25519 for ElGamal crypto

DJB described curve25519 in his paper which can be found here: http://cr.yp.to/ecdh/curve25519-20060209.pdf. It seems that the main purpose was for Diffie-Hellman key exchange. I think this means that ...
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Is there a field guide to ECC for the IT Security layman?

I'm trying to understand ECC from an IT layman's perspective and am trying to separate the theory from the standards, and understand why certain features are implemented or not implemented in the ...
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Besides key and ciphertext sizes what are other advantages of elliptic curve versions of various protocols?

There are elliptic curve variants of Diffie-Hellman, ElGamal, DSA and possibly other protocols/algorithms. I know that these elliptic curve variants have smaller key and ciphertext sizes which will ...
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Why do public keys need to be validated?

For some curves it's necessary to validate the public-key of the other side before running an elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman key-exchange. Apparently if you don't validate the public key, small ...
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BouncyCastle Elliptic Curve implementation

I'm implementing ECDH key exchange in C# using the BouncyCastle library and I'm having a hard time understanding the elliptic curve side (FpCurve). ...
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Using same keypair for Diffie-Hellman and signing

Are there any security risks using a single key-pair for both key-exchange and signing? I'm mainly interested in using Curve25519 for key-exchange and Ed25519 for signing. But similar combinations, ...
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How does DJB's nistp224 manage to fit compressed points into 224 bits?

DJB's nistp224 program purports to be an implementation of elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman relative to the standard NIST P-224 elliptic curve. To the best of my ...
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Diffie hellman key exchange on elliptic curve over an extension field [closed]

I am attempting to do a final semester project where I implement Diffie-Hellman key exchange on an elliptic curve over an extension field (2^256). Can anybody help me to generate the extension field ...
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advantages of a static ECDH key

What are the advantages of using static-ephemeral ECDH over ephemeral-ephemeral ECDH?