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Re: [Cryptography] [cryptography] Practical Threshold Signatures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Nov 13 14:53:52 2013
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:44:37 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: realcr <realcr@gmail.com>
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On 2013-11-13 16:14, realcr wrote:
> From what I understand, the group I'm looking for is an elliptic cure
> with a weil pairing. (Jonathan mentioned bilinear map, I assume that
> means the same thing?)
A pairing is a bilinear map. The Weil pairing is a particular bilinear
map on the points of certain elliptic curves that is useful for
cryptography.
So, same thing, near enough.
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