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Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption?

To: [email protected] (Eric Hughes)
Subject: Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption?
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 13:50:30 -0500
Cc: [email protected]
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Eric Hughes says:
>    From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
>    Basically, there are ways of extending public key methods into fields
>    other than the integers modulo some prime
> 
> Small correction.  While integer modulo a prime are fields (i.e. they
> have division), elliptic curve solutions only have a group structure,
> which is usually written as addition.

I stand corrected...

.pm

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