primo question

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by FactorEyes

Man, you are correct.

The lack of public-domain ECPP source code is bizarre.

Why? People are still doing research on improving the method.
Those with leading edge implementations want to retain their I.P.

There are very few people with the knowledge to do a first class
implementation. Such an implementation would be very costly in
terms of time. Think "economics".

You bemoan the lack of code....

Go write it.

[retina]

Some time ago I wrote my own point counting code, and created a few curves. But in reality this type of operation is not needed often. The most used part is not the point counter. The algorithms are easily found in public resources, and writing some quick and dirty code that works is quite simple. But to make it properly robust and nice to use is the icing that takes the majority of the time to apply. And there is little incentive to spend time to make such things all pretty and polished.

[CRGreathouse]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

You bemoan the lack of code....

Go write it.

Probably a good idea. I'm not up to it at the moment (mathematically or timewise), but perhaps in a few years. We'll see what advances happen in that time.