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Mar 18, 2019 at 4:49 | comment | added | Pieter Wuille | Tiny nit: an elliptic curve with a cyclic prime subgroup. Most elliptic curves are cyclic on their own, but most are of composite order. | |
Mar 17, 2019 at 23:49 | history | answered | Rene Pickhardt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |