Comment by goalieca
2 days ago
Given how much more favored ECDSA and ECDH is these days, i recommend teaching elliptic curves. They're actually quite simple to understand mathematically if you want a shallow comprehension.
2 days ago
Given how much more favored ECDSA and ECDH is these days, i recommend teaching elliptic curves. They're actually quite simple to understand mathematically if you want a shallow comprehension.
The task for teaching is much harder now as these need to be combined into hybrid PQC protocols
Sure, but teaching the original as a fundamental building block would still be just that.
The undergrad lectures I took placed almost equal emphasis on crypto over Zp and crypto over EC. For most students without deep abstract algebra backgrounds, introduction to operations and principles are more friendly and tractable over Zp.