2026-02-17 23:58 UTC
@soatok nice post, reading it now…
My understanding is that
the identity element for addition is zero
the identity element for multiplication is one
edit: also, the *absorbing* element for multiplication is zero
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@soatok@furry.engineer 2026-02-17 23:59
@marshray Yeah it's also called the point at infinity, but in X25519 it's a 32-byte sequence of NUL.