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Elliptic Curve Point Counting, made easy

Here are some numbers with the new algorithm for counting points on
elliptic curves (over fields of characteristic 2).
In 1998, Reynald Lercier set a record at 1663 bits in 330 days of CPU
on 266 MHz Alphas.  In 1999, Frederik Vercauteren set a record at 1999
I've been working on the problem since then.  These were measured just

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Re: Al'Qaeda's fantasy ideology:  Policy Review no. 114
From fork-admin@xent.com  Mon Aug 19 11:03:32 2002

Wasn't the Aztec population that greeted Cortez already largely
decimated by the microbiology brought over by DeSoto nearly a hundred
years before?
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