How the ECDSA Algorithm Works by PS3 Developer KaKaRoToKS  111w
ago - Following up on his status update for the PS3 4.0 Homebrew
Enabler (HEN), today Sony PlayStation 3 hacker KaKaRoToKS has
explained how the ECDSA algorithm works.  To quote: To popular
demand, I have decided to try and explain how the ECDSA
algorithm works. I've been struggling a bit to understand it
properly and while I found a lot of documentation about it, I
haven't really found any "ECDSA for newbies" anywhere.  So I
thought it would be good to explain in simple terms how it works
so others can learn from my research. I have found some websites
that explain the basic principles but nowhere near enough to
actually understand it, others that explains things without any
basics, making it incomprehensible, and others that go way too
deep into the the mathematics behind it.  ECDSA stands for
"Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm", it's used to
create a digital signature of data (a file for example) in order
to allow you to verify its au