A deterministic extractor for an elliptic curve is a function that converts a random point on the curve to a random-looking bit-string, which is statistically close to a uniformly random bit-string. The problem of converting random points of an elliptic curve into random bits has several cryptographic applications. In this talk, we propose two simple and efficient deterministic extractors for a...

The ideal choices for the tasks presented in the project proposal would be the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda. html), which exposes more underlying architecture to programmers. However, the package requires a capable NVIDIA video card, and we could not get for this project. ATI also designed a similar platform “Close-to-Metal (CTM) Device” (http://ati.de/companyinf...

according to the quran, god is the first teacher of the quran. the prophet utilizes a variety of ways for learning of the qur'an and teaches the qur'an to others and especially children has been recommended for this. the problem of legitimacy of getting money or not for teaching the quran causes controversy among islamic scholars such that each group according to some verses have trie...