Building a Curve25519 Hardware Accelerator
&gt; Wait, what? So many articles and journals I read on the topic just talk about prime fields, modular reduction and blah blah blah like it’s asking someone to buy milk and eggs at the grocery store.<p>No kidding, it&#x27;s so frustrating! I have to read some articles&#x2F; papers like 20x and open a bunch of wikipedia tabs to understand wtf they&#x27;re talking about. If they gave a simple, high level explanation it would save tons of time - while a wikipedia article is going to be very in depth, it&#x27;s not tailored to the context of what I&#x27;m reading, so I often have to look at a whole bunch of things to start to build a good model in my head for wtf they&#x27;re trying to convey.<p>This post, on the other hand, is perfect for me. Thank you so much for writing it I&#x27;m learning a ton.