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Re: If we find DLP solution for EC, what is the alternative to replace ECC?
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digaran
on 30/10/2023, 20:08:30 UTC

How can you divide a number by an unknown number?  Tongue
You can't, there could be a closed source curve parameters, but it would be useless because G can reveal start and range of the group order.


If you hide that piece of information, how can you be sure that a private key is within the group?
I was thinking about a provable algorithm which could be placed on a computer to randomly generate a curve and then produce a closed source library, then we could burn that computer so that nobody can access any data from it.

But as I said, it won't work, and I'm not sure doing that is even possible.  I know this sounds stupid, hence the need to ask it from those who'd know better.