Re: Elliptical Curve Encryption

Lewis McCarthy (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 21:39:18 -0400

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Anonymous writes:
> Elliptic curve variants of normal public-key cryptosystems -- ECDH, ECDSS,
> and now ECKEA/XECKEA (said like "ecky/zecky") -- work by replacing the
> standard algorithm's modular exponentiation with that operation.

What does the 'X' mean in the hypothetical "ECKEA/XECKEA"?

-Lewis

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