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ps: thanks for the math pdf you sent me a year ago or so...
we learnt math in hungarian so it really helped me a lot!

On 8/29/22 16:06, mc36 wrote:
> 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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