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> ould just be a matter of iterating from A until you hit the end point and counting, right?

Yes, you could brute-force all the points. The good thing is, ECC is done on fields that are very large, so that actually enumerating them is not practical. Check out Curve25519[1] for some numbers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519

parent neikos 6 years ago

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