Counting Points On Elliptic Curves - Naive Approach

Naive Approach

The naive approach to counting points, which is the least sophisticated, involves running through all the elements of the field and testing which ones satisfy the Weierstrass form of the elliptic curve

y^2 = x^3 + Ax + B. \,

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