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Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption?




[email protected] says:
> What, exactly is elliptic curve encryption?

Basically, there are ways of extending public key methods into fields
other than the integers modulo some prime -- you can also perform
these methods in fields based on so-called eliptic curves, and when
you do it turns out that there are certain speed benefits.

Perry