1. What was the most difficult part of the reading for you?
Um... Let's blame my confusion on the fact that this is a new book with a new style that feels like a new language being spoken. Yes. Let's blame it on that. I'm still pretty confused about what Elliptical Curves are... but beyond that, I'm confused about what in the world this "Sage" business is. I mean.... what in the world is that? It kind of reminded me of playing Zelda and "Sage" is that annoying helper that beeps and tells you what to do every step of the way... only in this book, since I don't even know what "Sage" is, it's not very helpful to me. But, ignoring the weird Sage business, I didn't understand the condition of -16(4a^3+27b^2) not equaling zero. Also, I didn't understand how figure 6.2 is an elliptic curve... It just looks like dots to me.
2. What was the most interesting part of the reading for you?
Well, I really didn't understand much of what I read... so there wasn't much. I guess that if I had to pick something that caught my eye it would be what the very first paragraph says: It talks about putting keys on stamps and making them short and how these curves help with encryptions... Wow.... I guess it's going to be cool when I understand it...
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