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X25519

Montgomery-X-coordinate DH function used with Curve25519 in Internet cryptography
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X25519

Summary

X25519 is a function[1].

Key Facts

  • X25519 is credited with the discovery of Daniel J. Bernstein[2].
  • X25519's instance of is recorded as function[3].
  • X25519's described at URL is recorded as https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg04996.html[4].
  • X25519's described by source is recorded as RFC 7748: Elliptic Curves for Security[5].
  • X25519's used by is recorded as Transport Layer Security, version 1.3[6].
  • X25519's uses is recorded as Curve25519[7].
  • X25519's ITU/ISO/IEC object ID is recorded as 1.3.101.110[8].
  • X25519's GitHub topic is recorded as x25519[9].

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Works and Contributions

X25519 is credited with the discovery of Daniel J. Bernstein[2].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . RFC 8446: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . RFC 8410: Algorithm Identifiers for Ed25519, Ed448, X25519, and X448 for Use in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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