From 136a4ba20785e509ecbd84829b3b1975fc6664ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Levy <35595512+maxim-levy@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 06:05:54 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] a tiny clarification about the point H (#2774) IMHO, introducing the point _H_ explicitly makes the explanation arguably a bit more clear --- doc/intro.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/intro.md b/doc/intro.md index ccfbf4f96..dea17b477 100644 --- a/doc/intro.md +++ b/doc/intro.md @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ dive deeper into those assumptions, there are other opportunities to 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