Monday, December 2, 2013

Section 16.2, due December 4

I don't understand how plaintext is encoded by elliptic curves.  I see how it's put in the x-point and how you have to be careful about making sure there's a square root to form the y-coordinate, but other than that, I'm lost.

It is interesting to think about the implications of elliptic curve cryptography.  I didn't expect to see it have ways to help with factoring, but I'm excited to see how it can lead to factoring algorithms.

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