This document summarizes a research paper on using elliptic curve cryptography for message authentication. It begins with an introduction to elliptic curve cryptography and how it can provide equivalent security to other public key encryption methods but with smaller key sizes. It then describes the proposed methodology which includes generating an ECC key pair, encrypting a message with the public key, transmitting the encrypted message, and decrypting it with the private key. The results show a message being encrypted and decrypted correctly using this ECC process. It concludes that ECC can provide an efficient method for authentication in systems like vehicular networks due to its lower computation and communication overhead compared to other encryption methods.