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Mike Rosing (eresrch@msn.fullfeed.com)
Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:42:00 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Paulo Barreto wrote:
> Uh, actually it depends on exactly what notation you are using. I think
> what Mike had in mind was DLP as the *general* discrete logarithnm problem
> (i.e. defined for any group), so that ECDLP is a particular instance of
> DLP. The "classical" DLP is defined on the multiplicative group of GF(p),
> and for historic reasons, there seems to be no standard shorthand for this
> instance.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Thanks Paulo.
>
> On the other hand, I do agree that having more than one option is wise and
> desirable.
Always good to have options. The whole field is new, let's hope some
mathematicians come up with other hard problems :-)
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:24 ADT