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

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
Message Hash: ea6138ec596ef4e00768744be81ee57be22917d67efecc106e5f5178e02bff70
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UTC Datetime: 1994-12-13 18:51:19 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 10:51:19 PST

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 10:51:19 PST
To: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
Subject: Re: What, exactly is elliptic encryption?
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Eric Hughes says:
>    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.

I stand corrected...

.pm

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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>