After seeing the post about elliptic curve encrytion (mentioning neal koblitz as an authority) I took the liberty of forwarding it to him and asking for his response as well as a good reference. Here's the response. (I'd never heard of elliptic curve crypto. I have now.) ---- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 16:10:39 -0700 From: Neal Koblitz To: phantom@u.washington.edu Subject: reply Matt, Thanks for the message. The guy is basically correct in what he says (except for minor inaccuracies in terminology and so on). The best source on this subject is the recent book: ``Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems'' by Alfred Menezes, Kluwer Acad. Pub., 1993. Regards, Neal ------ Matt Thomlinson University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. phone: (206) 548-9804 Check my home page -- ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/phantom/home.html PGP 2.2 key available via email, or finger phantom@hardy.u.washington.edu