16.3, due on December 4

• I'm still a little bit unclear as to how elliptic curves work. I follow along in lecture and understand the examples, but I'm still a little cloudy. The fact that elliptic curves can be singular is also a stumbling block for me.
  
• This section of reading referred back to two other methods of factoring n. It referred back to the p-1 method as well as the Quadratic Sieve. I was intrigued at how similar this "elliptic curve" factorization was to the P-1 method.