Well, you should take it as a compliment: me having high expactations from what I've already seen in the software :-)
I am really impressed with the software and it is a great help when doing my thesis on Pairing based crypto here at DTU in Denmark. I've implemented the Weil pairing and just yesterday with the help from Justin and David made an example MOV reduction work. It's a lot easier than having to implement it in C and figure out all the packages for doing finite field arithmetic and having to implement the EC arithmetic on top of that my self. I would like to contribute but it will probably be more along the lines of some SAGE interacts. /David Ps. working on getting a SAGE installation made available on the student Solaris system. On Sep 29, 11:19 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:54 AM, David Møller Hansen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you David. This seems to work just fine, though a bit of a > > roundabout - I agree. > > > I do not understand why sage doesn't have a command just letting you > > expand a Galois field with a arbitrary expansion degree, in my case 4. > > It's only because you haven't written it and contributed it to Sage yet. :-) > > Seriously, I released Sage-0.1 in Jan 2005, just over 3 years ago, and > Sage just isn't "done" yet, and that's pretty much the only reason why > Sage doesn't have lots of natural things that one would like to have > yet. > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
