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it's all just arithmetic, in fact, sign, odd/even, special forms of multiplication and division, the way that they write about it makes it a lot more confusing than it actually is when you cut through that

i don't obfuscate my meaning, i simplify it, because that's how i remember these things

one of the things that i think would help a lot with teaching people how cryptography works is scaling it down - they should show how a 32 bit elliptic curve signature works, then you would grasp it much easier what happens at 256 bits
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Noshole 1y ago

Nostr ted talk? I want slides 😂

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, it would be cool

i had an awesome spanish cryptographer lady doing a presentation once at my job with dusk.network - she explained arithmetic groups in such a beautiful way, from first principles

it was so good and good luck finding an explanation of arithmetic groups as good as hers was

i understand it abstractly as a kind of "overlay number matrix" but yeah it's the basis of elliptic curve signatures and shared secret derivation (diffie hellman)

all the concepts can be compared accurately to simpler versions that you can work in small numbers of digits and simple junior highschool algebra

anyway, it's not important to know it in detail to use the libraries written by the galaxy brains who understand the big versions in detail

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Noshole 1y ago

The abstract concepts are my strength in development comprehension.. the literal/technical components; however, 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩