If we someday want to replace quantum-vulnerable ECC, we want something compact, flexible and fast. Isogenies seem like the only candidate so far: 66 byte pubkeys, 148 byte sigs. I wrote a thing explaining isogenies, aimed at people who already know ECC.
https://conduition.io/cryptography/isogenies-intro/
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2026-03-18 15:53:56 UTC
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