[Cryptography] New attacks on discrete logs?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu May 22 18:17:12 EDT 2014


On Thu, 22 May 2014, James A. Donald wrote:

> Certain special curves were proposed, were patented, were investigated.  
> Turns out those curves suck.

How can one patent a mathematical expression?  It's a fact, after all, or
are you saying that the application itself was patented?

-- Dave


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