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An elliptic curve is an algebraic curve of genus one with some additional properties. Questions with this tag will often have the top-level tags nt.number-theory or ag.algebraic-geometry. Note also the tag arithmetic-geometry as well as some related tags such as rational-points, abelian-varieties, heights. Please do not use this tag for questions related to ellipses; instead use conic-sections.

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Select random point on elliptic curve

If I have an elliptic curve $E$ over some finite field $F_p$ what is a step by step algorithm to pick a random point that lays on this curve? There is definitely a naive approach to brute force all po …