Bitcoin for Nonmathematicians:. Slava Gomzin

Chapter 5 Types of Encryption Symmetric Encryption One-Way Hash Functions One-Way Function and Message Digest Collision SHA-256 RIPEMD-160 Public-Key (Asymmetric) Cryptography Digital Signatures Chapter 6 RSA Step by Step One-Way Functions Let’s Start Public Key: Just a Random Number Modulus: It’s Like a Clock Dial Encryption: Plaintext to the Power of Public Key Private Key: Phi Function + Modular Inversion Decryption: Ciphertext to the Power of Private Key Chapter 7 How Elliptic Curves Work The Graph Horizontal Symmetry and Points of Intersection Point Operations Point Addition Point Doubling Point Multiplication One-Way Function Limiting the Curve for the Sake of Cryptography Generating the Keys Encryption Decryption Just a Little Bit of Math