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Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption?
[email protected] wrote:
>What, exactly is elliptic curve encryption?
Well, some other have already described it. I'll list some references
I've found:
A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography, 2nd edition, Neal Koblitz,
Springer-Verlag. Chapter 6 is titled "Elliptic Curves" and is split
into four parts: basics, cryptosystems, factorization, primality
testing.
Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems, Alfred Menezes, Kluwer
Academic Publishers. Haven't had a chance to read this book yet.
Looks pretty good though :)
Algorithms for Modular Elliptic Curves, J. E. Cremona, Cambridge
University Press. Found this book last week, along with the above
mentioned Menezes book. Likewise, I haven't had a chance to read it
yet. It is divided into three parts: description of contructing
elliptic curves, a collection of algorithms, a huge list of tables.
The algorithms are either in Fortran or in pseudocode (unless the
Fortran used allows semicolons and the sh-like FI keyword).
>(Only thing I knew that the NeXT nearly had it in its OS, but
>the heavy hammer of ITAR squashed that...)
Yeah, for a while a friend and I tried getting that to work, but we
were never successful. Then, in an version upgrade, the encryption
disappeared ;)
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