You don’t think it likely that etale cohomology will be applied to cryptography? I’m sure there are papers already claiming to apply it, but I wouldn’t want to evaluate them. Some people describe it as part of Schoof’s algorithm, but I’m not sure that’s fair. (or maybe you count elliptic curve cryptography as whimsy—it won’t survive quantum computers any longer than rsa)
Yeah, ok. That may have been a bad example, or it may be an indication that everything gets some application. I don’t know how it relates to Schoof’s algorithm. It isn’t as far as I’m aware used in the algorithm or in the correctness proof but this is stretching my knowledge base. I don’t have enough expertise to evaluate any claims about applying Etale cohomology to cryptography.
I’m not sure what to replace that example with. Stupid cryptographers going and making my field actually useful to people.
You don’t think it likely that etale cohomology will be applied to cryptography? I’m sure there are papers already claiming to apply it, but I wouldn’t want to evaluate them. Some people describe it as part of Schoof’s algorithm, but I’m not sure that’s fair. (or maybe you count elliptic curve cryptography as whimsy—it won’t survive quantum computers any longer than rsa)
Yeah, ok. That may have been a bad example, or it may be an indication that everything gets some application. I don’t know how it relates to Schoof’s algorithm. It isn’t as far as I’m aware used in the algorithm or in the correctness proof but this is stretching my knowledge base. I don’t have enough expertise to evaluate any claims about applying Etale cohomology to cryptography.
I’m not sure what to replace that example with. Stupid cryptographers going and making my field actually useful to people.