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1. kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2019 16:56:28 UTC kat
   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
   
   #math
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2019 17:04:31 UTC kat

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     A finite field too
   • kat (boneidol@indy.im)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2019 18:05:06 UTC 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