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Andrea Corbellini
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Andrea Corbellini's personal blog at andrea.corbellini.name covers math and security. Since 2015, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction (2015)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andrea Corbellini's elliptic curve cryptography series as a beginner-friendly introduction that covers the math and underlying group theory, building to an intermediate understanding.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction (2015)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-05-25
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-17
What Hacker News says?
This [0] was also a very good introduction to elliptic curve cryptography written by a friend of mine in 2015. Highly recommended. [0]: https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cry...
Comment linking /2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/
on “Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained”Submitted Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction as a story · 238 points
HN discussionAs nice as it is, integers are not a field (i.e. most of them don't have multiplicative inverses, or 1/n usually isn't integral). Another good writeup: http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryp...
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on “Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners”Submitted Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Gentle Introduction – Part II as a story · 135 points
HN discussionHere's another great resource on the topic: https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cry...
Comment linking /2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/
on “Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (2019)”Submitted Elliptic Curve Cryptography: ECDH and ECDSA as a story · 41 points
HN discussionAs some others have pointed out, this is very basic stuff, but a good introduction. I have found this series of blog posts [0] as a super useful explanation of ECC that starts with the basics but covers the math and underlying group theory well, building up to an intermediate-level understanding of the matter. [0] https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cry...
Comment linking /2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/
on “Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Basic Introduction”Submitted It Will Take Decades to Undo the Damage Done by "AI" as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis is a pretty good intro article: https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cry...
Comment linking /2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/
on “Why Did Satoshi Decide to Use Secp256k1 Instead of Secp256r1?”Submitted Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction (2015) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPart I: https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cry... Part I HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560839
Comment linking /2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/
on “Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Gentle Introduction – Part II”Submitted Elliptic Curves:Finite Fields and Discrete Logarithm as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elliptic Curve Cryptography: breaking security and a comparison with RSA as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authenticated encryption: why you need it and how it works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Encrypt: the road towards a better web? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What time is it? A simple question with a complex answer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ASCII messages in prime numbers as a story · 1 points
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