I only authored the website (and was not exactly alone either), not Elligator itself.
Elligator 2 is a very neat mapping, but when I implemented it in Monocypher two years ago, I noticed a severe lack of documentation that left quite a few dead bodies. This website is our attempt to remedy the problem and finally provide a usable tutorial for implementers.
This is great! My one suggestion would be to host the python reference code on a site where people can read it in their browser, instead of sending a tarball… especially because it’s so short, concise, and pretty.
That’s actually a neat suggestion. I’ll see about distributing it online in addition to the tarball. I’ll also need to find a way to remove that pesky licence code from the HTML version… oh, and syntax highlighting…
Do you know of a command line program that can turn Python code into pretty HTML?
vim can export syntax highlighted code to styled HTML, built right in:
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:h TOhtmlor this useful SO postPygments is the standard solution, I think.