ECC, was:Re: DSA alternative to RSA

Mike Rosing (eresrch@msn.fullfeed.com)
Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:38:19 -0500 (CDT)

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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Paulo Barreto wrote:

> Understanding the ECC counterparts of conventional DL algorithms is indeed
> not harder than understanding the conventional ones. I guess the
> perplexity people often shows regarding EC is caused by the (surprising)
> fact that elliptic curves do present their properties. The truly difficult
> part is perhaps the point counting algorithms (the underlying theory is
> really, really heavy).

Yeah, but I bet it all boils down to shifts, ands, and xors. I have yet
to read Lercier and Morain's papers enough times to understand them, but
I intend to understand them eventually :-)

Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike

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