[curves] Fwd: Crash Course on ECC poster

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2015-07-07 23:12:55 -0400, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> I made this poster for the DEFCON Crypto and Privacy Village. It's intended
> for audiences of mixed ability levels:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/hwbSRHh.png
>
> Would appreciate technical feedback on it. If you'd like to suggest copy
> changes, please consider design constraints (i.e. available room on the
> page).

it's a little bit odd in the "clock cryptography" side that Alice
chooses a=27 when p=17.  While that obviously works fine, traditionally
you'd choose a secret key 1 < a < p.  choosing a > p is a bit of a
distraction here.

      --dkg