RE: Understanding Bitcoin Internal Math for Private and Public Keys
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@leprechaun ...you lost me at JS APIs 😉 😂 Clearly this is above my head. This looks highly technical although I'm sure to your Maths brain it isn't. For a layperson like me, whats is the takeaway from this? You can give it to me in one sentence lol or is it basically that the encryption is not secure? As an aside... did you see that @snook 's weekly prompt for this week is the word leprechaun lol? worth an entry? 😉🌈
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Thanks for reading so far into it! 😄 I get confused sometimes myself. I wrote about how Bitcoin public keys are related to private keys. The important change is the that instead of using 75 digit numbers for keys like in real Bitcoin, here I used 1 digit keys. Of course when keys are this small it is easy to generate all the keys and be able to look up the private keys with public keys.
I wanted to see if using mixed negative and positive numbers for the field rather than strictly positive numbers gave a somewhat more elegant result. I wanted to be able to understand this twenty years down the road when perhaps I won't have looked at this kind of math in the last fifteen years previous. It's annoying not understanding one's own notes.
ok gotcha !LOLZ that makes a bit more sense now when you put it that way. I was like...am I back in Advanced Mathematics here? hehe Thank you for taking the time to explain your thought process 😉 I did actually read it all and tried to understand but realised that I just couldn't 😆. Hope you're keeping well.
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