Curve25519
- Date
- 2005 · confidence high
- Place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Credited to
- Daniel J. Bernstein
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
An elliptic curve designed for Diffie-Hellman key exchange (ECDH) offering 128 bits of security with high performance and no known patents, created by Daniel J. Bernstein.
What it led to
- adoption as a standard in protocols such as TLS, SSH and Signal
- development of the X25519 Diffie-Hellman function
- boost to patent-free elliptic-curve cryptography