Curve25519 is an elliptic curve offering 128 bits of security (256 bits key size) and designed for use with the elliptic curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) key agreement scheme.
The original Curve25519 paper defined it as a Diffie–Hellman (DH) function. Daniel J. Bernstein has since proposed that the name Curve25519 be used for the underlying curve, and the name X25519 for the DH function.
