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X25519 and Curve25519 (RFC 7748)

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Cryptography
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5 sections

Official docs outline

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  1. Elliptic curves

    Curve25519 and Curve448 parameters.

  2. The functions X25519 and X448

    Montgomery ladder scalar multiplication and clamping.

  3. Diffie-Hellman

    Key agreement with X25519 and shared secret checks.

  4. Algorithm identifiers

    Encoding X25519 keys in X.509 and PKCS #8.

  5. Security considerations

    Small subgroup and contributory behavior concerns.

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