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Re: RSA Homepage on Eliptical Curves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bodo Moeller)
Thu Dec 18 18:41:19 1997
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 97 00:19 GMT+0100
From: Bodo_Moeller@public.uni-hamburg.de (Bodo Moeller)
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971212211404.3955B-100000@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>
Mike Rosing <cryptech@Mcs.Net>:
> Alan Olsen:
>> The RSA homepage has an article on a weakness involving eliptical
>> curves. [...] Details would be helpful.
> It only applies to curves over GF(p) for p a prime and curves which
> have coefficients with "Trace = 1". [...] At the elliptic curve
> discreet log conference the guy from Japan who published the Trace=1
> break (12 hours after the guys at HP :-) said [...]
Where can those papers be found (both Nigel Smart's [HP] paper, and
the paper from Japan mentioned by Mike) -- either on the net, or on
physical paper?
