On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Alex Ghitza <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alasdair, > > My initial reaction is to point out that the NIST elliptic curves are > over finite fields, while the Cremona database contains elliptic curves > over the rational numbers. > > I don't see why we couldn't have a database with the NIST recommended > elliptic curves available in Sage, though.
Aren't those curves owned by some company though, and one can't use them without paying license fees? I can't believe I just wrote that sentence. William > > > Best, > Alex > > > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:13:38 -0800 (PST), Alasdair <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm trying to find out if the NIST recommended elliptic curves >> (appendix to http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-3/fips_186-3.pdf) >> are in the Cremona database. I can't seem to find anything online; >> does anybody here know? >> >> Thanks, >> Alasdair >> >> -- >> 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 >> URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > -- > Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne > -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
