16.4 Due December 6

I read this section and I really don't understand the part about curves in GF(4) . The addition and multiplication rules didn't really make sense to me and then the examples where they found the points on the curve didn't make sense to me either.

16.3 due December 3

I did not get a whole lot out of this section. I feel like I got a good understanding of why elliptic curve factoring methods are advantageous and when they work well, but I really don't understand how the work very well at all. That was hard.