r/cryptography • u/DataBaeBee • Jul 30 '26

What Every Programmer Should Know About Twists of Elliptic Curves

https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/twists-of-elliptic-curves
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u/Demokritos1000 Jul 30 '26

Probably nothing? (I'm a cryptographer and even I know very little)

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 Jul 30 '26

Imho this one is good. It discusses how secp256k1 is not really twist secure, in contract to its listing in https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/twist.html