Re: Public Key, Symbolic Calculation

From: Kiuhnm (kiuhnm03_at_yahoo.it.invalid)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:13:11 GMT

David Wagner wrote:
> But even this is not precise enough. What field does the polynomial
> lie in, and how is it specified? If you say that the polynomial lies
> in C, we're back to trouble again, because you can't specify arbitrary
> elements of C in finite length. Perhaps you meant that the polynomial
> p has integral, or rational, coefficients? In that case the polynomial
> can be specified in finite length using any standard encoding.

The polynomial has "algebraic" coefficients, but I am afraid that if the
"algebric form" of the solution is known, the problem is simple.

Kiuhnm

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