In the meantime the paper is published: http://www.ams.org/notices/200708/tx070800972p.pdf
Posted by Twan van der Schoot at August 10, 2007 05:12 AMTwo guys credited with ecc in 1985 were Koblitz at univ. wash and Victor Miller at ykt (math dept). Coppersmith (lucifer, des) was also in the math dept at ykt.
During period that Koblitz and Miller were doing the ecc related work, i had offices in bldg. 28 (sjr) and bldg. 29 (vlsi lab) on the west coast ... but reported to ykt on the east coast ... which met x-cntry flts a couple times or more a month and interacted. i had interactions the people in the math dept (coppersmith, koblitz, etc) on various crypto stuff i was doing.
misc. old related to various kinds of crypto
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto
misc references:
http://www.certicom.com/index.php?action=ecc,home
http://www.certicom.jp/index.php?action=ecc_tutorial,ecc_tut_1_0
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,290660,sid14_gci784941,00.html