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Re: RSA Homepage on Eliptical Curves

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nobuki nakatuji)
Thu Dec 18 20:05:01 1997

From: "nobuki nakatuji" <db1011@hotmail.com>
To: Bodo_Moeller@public.uni-hamburg.de
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 16:43:26 PST

>
>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?
>
I have Postscript version of the paper, which Bob Silverman of RSA
Laboratories obtained.
If you want it,Please send e-mail to me.
Thanks.



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