1994-12-13 - Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption?

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From: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Raw Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 09:45:10 PST

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From: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 09:45:10 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption?
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   From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>

   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.

Eric

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• 1994-12-13 (Mon, 12 Dec 94 22:21:25 PST) - What, exactly is elliptic encryption? - dfloyd@io.com
  • 1994-12-13 (Mon, 12 Dec 94 23:24:29 PST) - Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption? - db@Tadpole.COM (Doug Barnes)
    • 1994-12-13 (Tue, 13 Dec 94 00:06:13 PST) - Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption? - eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
  • 1994-12-13 (Tue, 13 Dec 94 06:47:38 PST) - Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption? - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
    • 1994-12-13 (Tue, 13 Dec 94 09:45:10 PST) - Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption? - eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
      • 1994-12-13 (Tue, 13 Dec 94 10:51:19 PST) - Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption? - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
  • 1994-12-13 (Tue, 13 Dec 94 11:04:12 PST) - Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption? - Karl Lui Barrus <klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu>