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a tiny clarification about the point H (#2774)
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IMHO, introducing the point _H_ explicitly makes the explanation arguably a bit more clear
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maxim-levy authored and ignopeverell committed May 14, 2019
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An Elliptic Curve for the purpose of cryptography is simply a large set of points that
we will call _C_. These points can be added, subtracted, or multiplied by integers (also called scalars).
Given an integer _k_ and
Given such a point _H_, an integer _k_ and
using the scalar multiplication operation we can compute `k*H`, which is also a point on
curve _C_. Given another integer _j_ we can also calculate `(k+j)*H`, which equals
`k*H + j*H`. The addition and scalar multiplication operations on an elliptic curve
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