(Very) Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
This post leaves out a key difference between something like RSA and EC, which is that EC doesn’t actually provide an encryption function. You end up using an integrated encryption scheme.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Encryption_SchemeThis is intuitively similar to how TLS works, in which asymmetric concepts are used in conjunction with a KDF and hashing algorithm to agree upon a per-session symmetric key.