Black-Scholes formula
Finance
Black-Scholes formula… maybe not as important and well-known as compounding interest-rate but still the most famous formula among options traders.
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Generate IOTA address
IOTA
Generate IOTA address using plain old Python, starting with random seed, derive private key, and finally the checksum and address.
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Generate Ethereum Address
Ethereum
Generate Ethereum address from private key using plain old Python3, Elliptic Curve multiplication from SageMath and of course Keccak hash function.
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Generate Monero address
Monero
Generate Monero address from the root private key using plain old Python, Edwards curve's ed25519 implementation, Keccak-256 hashing and Monero's Base58 encoding.
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Elliptic curves
Cryptography
The easiest way to understand Elliptic Curve (EC), point addition, scalar multiplication and trapdoor function; explained with simple graphs and animations.
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Zero-knowledge proofs
Cryptography
Zero-knowledge is a method to prove that you know a secret ``x`` (e.g. a password, private key, piece of knowledge, etc) without revealing that secret.
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Zero-knowledge proofs
Cryptography
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ECDSA
Cryptography
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) are more complex than RSA or ElGamal but I will try my best to hide the hairy math and the implementation details.
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ElGamal
Cryptography
ElGamal is a public key cryptosystem that is used in encryption , digital signature and homomorphic cryptography.
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