From 1e098d10c1a8f9d883902c029dc7af56db9163f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: claylock Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:08:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited ch04_keys.adoc with Atlas code editor --- ch04_keys.adoc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ch04_keys.adoc b/ch04_keys.adoc index 6e485ee1..40cfbfb4 100644 --- a/ch04_keys.adoc +++ b/ch04_keys.adoc @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ more complex pattern of dots on a unfathomably large grid. .Elliptic curve cryptography: visualizing an elliptic curve over F(p), with p=17 image::images/mbc3_0403.png["ecc-over-F17-math"] -So, for example, the following is a point P with coordinates (x,y) that +So, for example, the following is a point P with coordinates (x, y) that is a point on the +secp256k1+ curve: [source, python] @@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ public keys are known as _compressed public keys_, and the original 65-byte keys results in smaller transactions, allowing more payments to be made in the same block. -As we saw in the section <>, a public key is a point (x,y) on an +As we saw in the section <>, a public key is a point (x, y) on an elliptic curve. Because the curve expresses a mathematical function, a point on the curve represents a solution to the equation and, therefore, if we know the _x_ coordinate, we can calculate the _y_ coordinate by