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1. kat (boneidol)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2019 12:56:28 EDT kat

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   How can you have a "tangent" to a "curve" when everything is over a discrete field?
   
   I don't believe most of the explanations of elliptic curve cryptography
   
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   1. kat (boneidol)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2019 13:04:31 EDT kat

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      A finite field too
      1. kat (boneidol)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2019 14:05:06 EDT kat

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         Youtube videos on how this work, fall into two types...
         
         1. those that get the curve addition correct but handwave the point at infinity.
         
         2. those that get the curve addition wrong