Quote from: piotr_n on January 29, 2014, 03:22:50 PM

From what I see, the guy is literally gathering a statistical data, hoping that maybe there is something about this curve that would make the balls more likely to end up in a certain places on the earth.

But, of course, there isn't. The group is complete, all $ORDER points are reachable by multiplying the generator from 1..$ORDER-1. Some points _can't_ be more likely than others as a property of the curve with a uniform input, or otherwise some points would be unreachable (obvious by the pigeonhole principle) and the order would be less.

Quote from: piotr_n on January 29, 2014, 04:38:44 PM

Quote from: itod on January 29, 2014, 04:23:32 PM

Dozens off us with many machines are helping him gather this data, we'll see the results in the paper.

Exactly. It is a highly valuable project, because even if it fails, it still proves something.

All it does is reaffirms is that the world is full of fuzzy headed reactionary thinkers, unscrupulous parties, and pump-and-dumpers looking to cash in on hysteria.

Itod, you realize that the software you're running is indistinguishable from a cracker of EC keys, right? I mean no real reason to believe that anyone will find anything, but...