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Elliptic curve cryptography is a modern public-key encryption technique based on mathematical elliptic curves and is well-known for creating smaller, faster, and more efficient cryptographic keys. For example, Bitcoin uses ECC as its asymmetric cryptosystem because of its lightweight nature.

In this introduction to ECC, I want to focus on the high-level ideas that make ECC work. For the purposes of keeping this article easier to digest, I’ll omit implementation details and mathematical proofs, we can save those for another time.

Docker on MacOS will always be slower than on Linux (well, unless Apple Silicon ends up panning out, which it looks like it might!), but it doesn't have to be as infuriatingly slow as it is by default. In fact, you can get it pretty close to native speed and it's not even all that difficult. It turns out that developing with Docker on MacOS can actually be a really enjoyable experience, not just a compromise you make in order to have a portable development environment.