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RS Erasure Coding and Shamir's Secret Sharing
So I was trying to understand the basic difference between erasure coding and secret sharing, and I found this paper (that you can find here or here).
For what I understand, it states that Shamir's ...
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Where can I find useful data for cryptography/coding theory?
When implementing cryptographic/coding theory algorithms one need to use data like big prime numbers, numbers in Z_n and their inverses, irreducible polynomials in Z_n[x] and so on... While sometimes ...
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Hermitian curves introductory references
Could you give me some reference to start on Hermitian Curves. Some papers or textbooks would be perfect, and please mention if it's math inclined or comp.sci. inclined.
I've only seen hermitian ...
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Current mathematics theory used in cryptography/coding theory
What are the mainstream techniques borrowed from algebraic geometry (or some other branch of mathematics) which are currently used in cryptography/coding theory? I've only heard about a small subset ...
