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Fast Elliptic Curve Cryptography in plain javascript

9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2014-05-25 · latest 2026-01-08

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  1. (2024). There are other vulnerabilities in that library too. I reported some (with some PRs) https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/338 , https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/pull/337 , https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/339 but I…
    comment by mmsc · 2026-01-08 · in We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof
  2. The maintainer seems to have abandoned it: https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues I wrote a shim library and posted it on their issue tracker: https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/343 Unfortunately, adoption seems slow. I'm…
    comment by some_furry · 2026-01-07 · in We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof
  3. …of default curve as future-proof as we could while balancing speed and interoperability. [0]: https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/128 [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861639#10 [2]:…
    comment by bartbutler · 2019-04-25 · in ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography
  4. …I have recommended P-256 as an option. [0]: https://protonmail.com/blog/openpgpjs-3-release/ [1]: https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/issues/128#issuecomment-...
    comment by KirinDave · 2019-04-25 · in ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography
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    Elliptic – Fast Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Plain JavaScript
    story by sr2 · 2017-05-29 · 0 comments
  6. Hey guys! Still not considering to use https://github.com/indutny/elliptic for your EC operations? It seems like Bitcore has moved to it, and are quite fine with the results: http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/07/22/bitcore-3000-is-three-time...
    comment by indutny · 2014-07-29 · in BitcoinJS
  7. …One question: it seems that you use the message directly, instead of its hash, in ECDSA? [1]. [1] https://github.com/indutny/elliptic/blob/master/lib/elliptic... PS: were you the guy that won the CloudFlare's HeartBleed challenge? great…
    comment by cryptbe · 2014-06-04 · in End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google
  8. Have you guys took a look at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic ?
    comment by indutny · 2014-06-04 · in End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google
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    Show HN: Elliptic.js – Fast plain JavaScript Elliptic Curve cryptography
    story by indutny · 2014-05-25 · 0 comments