Monday, December 7, 2009

16.4 for 7 December

1. The most difficult part was understanding the example using an elliptic curve over GF(4). I was not completely sure why some of the polynomials that resulted from plugging in elements of GF(4) had no solutions.

2. Using elliptic curves over GF(2^n) seems like it should be useful for computer applications since computer scientists always seem to like things to be in powers of 2.

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