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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:46:30PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> Elliptic curve cryptography is highly abstruse math (you somehow
> manage to take the tangent to a "curve" which consists of a scattering
> of points in a say 14-dimensional torus or 2-dimensional torus whose
> girth is a prime number, or in a huge-dimensional hypercube, then find
> where the tangent intersects the curve and reflect it),

Ewwww.

I'm hoping that the book will focus on applications more than raw math.
8)

-Robin

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