Elliptic Curve cryptography

It is a public key cryptography algorithm

• based on some algebraic equation for elliptic curves over finite fields
• has key size very much smaller compared to the other non elliptic cryptography algorithms

Elliptic curve formula,

$y^2=x^3+ax+b$

Resources §

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCvB-mhkT0w
2. Abelian group