Timeline for What is the reasoning behind the choice of 2^256-2^32-977 for the prime on the secp256k1 curve?
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| Mar 19, 2019 at 7:42 | comment | added | Pieter Wuille | @Rene Pickhardt: the optimization to use the efficiently-computable endormorphism to speed up elliptic curve computations is called the Gallant-Lambert-Vanstone method, but the details probably warrant their own question | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 6:51 | comment | added | Rene Pickhardt | What do you mean by "admitting an efficient endomorphism"? I know the meaning of the word endomorphism. But where and how is it being used? I could open a separate question if that was necessary. | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 4:32 | vote | accept | Pedro | ||
| Mar 18, 2019 at 1:03 | history | edited | G. Maxwell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 0:56 | history | answered | G. Maxwell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |