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[mc36 <>]

thanks for confirming the reception of the mail...
and thanks for taking care of the question...
please take your time, it have a good change that
i\m not right so dont put too much effort into it,
just if it really catches an interest somewhere....
thanks,
cs



On 8/29/22 16:01, Cristina Klippel Dominicini wrote:
> Hi Csaba!
>
> Sorry for the delay. For some reason, I am not receiving all the threads from 
> the rare list, and my mail server also blocked some messages. I will check 
> the archives.
>
> Interesting question! I am honored by your mention as a skilled 
> mathematician, but I am more a computer engineering trying to understand and 
> apply the math concepts to computing problems :-D But I have some very 
> skilled mathematician friends that help me when I have some doubts. I will 
> check with them if they have any insights about your question and get back to 
> you soon :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Cristina
>
> ________________________________________
> De:  <> em nome de 
> mc36 <>
> Enviado: sexta-feira, 26 de agosto de 2022 06:45
> Para: Cristina Klippel Dominicini
> Cc: 
> Assunto: [rare-dev] ecdh vs dh
>
> hi,
>
> can i ask you to help me solve a long lived question of me please:
> (i ask you because you're the only well skilled mathematician i know)
> (if it's outside of your interest, please forward it someone)
>
> which is harder to find out both a and b:
>
> ( (g^a)^b) % p == ( (g^b)^a) % p
> where g is 2 or 5, p is a 8192 bit prime, both well known, a and b are both 
> secrets
> here we are talking about positive integers
>
> or
>
> a*b == b*a
> here the computation is performed over 448bit elliptic curves
>
>
> my reasoning is that reversing the multiplication should be easier than 
> solving the discrete logarithm problem
>
> i see that it is an apples to oranges kind of question so a weak conjecture 
> is much more than enough
>
> thanks,
> cs
>
>
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