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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
BurtW
on 04/01/2016, 09:03:28 UTC
Unlike hash operations, elliptic curve operations have unpredictable machine cycle count.
I would expect a single point addition operation (P3 = P1 + P2) to have a very predictable machine cycle count.  It should be something like:

x3 = λ2+a1λ−a2−x1−x2

y3 = −a1x3−a3−λx3+λx1−y1

λ = (y2−y1) / (x2−x1)

From:  https://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/notes/elliptic/explicit.html