Implement point counting for curves about fastecdsa HOT 3 CLOSED

Do you know about MIRACL library ? It was the best implementation helped me, when i tryed to learn more, than theory, about this two algoritms

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Thanks for the reference, don't think I've come across that lib. The implementation itself isn't that tricky conceptually but it ends up being a lot of code due to the need for polynomial math (which GMP is lacking support for, and I don't want to pull in another C dependency, Windows being a complete disaster with GMP is already bad enough).

It's really a matter of not currently having the will to spend a big chunk of time implementing this feature when it has such a little payoff since all curves that should be considered for serious use already have the number of points as a parameter.

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Closing as wontfix because the lift (implementing polynomial fields or pulling in another math lib on top of GMP) doesn't match the payoff of point counting, which is adjacent to this libraries main purpose (providing support for ECDSA). If anyone needs this functionality they are welcome to add it and open a PR the changes.

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