I am working with golang's elliptic library: http://golang.org/src/pkg/crypto/elliptic/elliptic.go It implements functions on Weierstrass elliptic curves with a=-3. I need to make my own library that allows me to handle curves with a=0. I understand there are specific equations to use to optimall...

I am familiar with concepts such as the following: PKI and CAs ID based cryptography Certificateless cryptography PGP web of trust more or less anything in basic Crypto that is taught in a college course I need to quickly understand the main ideas behind "SPKI" or (Simple public key infrastr...

Is it desirable for people to ask a homework question here? Set aside for now the question of how this would be enforced. I'm more interesting in the policy question, and in our goals. Is this desirable? Do we want people to post their homework questions here? Do we want to post complete ans...