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Elliptic Curve Cryptography: The Tiny Keys That Protect the Internet

  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  • Mathematics
  • Cryptography

If you’ve spent any time reading about modern cryptography, you’ve probably encountered the phrase Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). It sounds less like a security technology and more like an elective mathematics course that everyone regrets taking — I’ve been in several of those.

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Euler’s Identity: The Single Equation That Connects Five Fundamental Mathematical Constants

  • Mathematics

When I was writing the Zero Knowledge Proofs: The Math blog post, I had the bright (read stupid) idea of asking ChatGPT to generate an image about math. It didn’t matter which math, didn’t specifically mention ZPTs in the prompt. It initially generated the above image. It’s a good image. It’s the…

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The First 1500 Hamming Numbers

  • JVM Internals
  • Mathematics
  • Memory Management

I haven’t had a chance to post anything here since the beginning of last semester. I’m in a class at the moment where all of the programming assignments involves annoying little math algorithms. The most recent required us to generate the first N hamming numbers using an efficient algorithm that…

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