Elliptic Curves and ECDSA - Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets

University of Basel Lecture - Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets.
Prof. Dr. Fabian Schär
Lecture: 3.4 Elliptic Curves and ECDSA
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Contributing team from the Center for Innovative Finance
Dario Thürkauf (DT)
Fabian Schär (FS)
Jakob Roth (JR)*
Katrin Schuler (KS)
Lorenz Geering (LG)
Matthias Nadler (MN)
Mitchell Goldberg (MG)
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* CIF alumni
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[@michaelhansen9636]

This was a really helpful video. Thank you so much!

[@kaushikdey6333]

Other start right away from the EC point arithmetic and continue from there, this detailed explaination of the underlying mechanism was very helpful thank you very much

[@doven8500]

Very detailed, thank you

[@merving5934]

Unfortunately this lecture made absolutely no sense to me, even though I have a degree in maths, it was not clearly explained how and why we are choosing any of these values like G, n, N and what's the idea behind choosing them this way, I had to invest some time to figure that out and find relevant information

[@centerforinnovativefinance3039]

Thanks for sharing this critique, Merving. We appreciate the feedback and will let it flow into the next iteration of the video. I hope you found the other lectures more insightful. Cheers, KS

[@kaushikdey6333]

Here's the other half of the story, discussing ECDH pairings, might be helpful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boingKOwrdWhiqc