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Elliptic curve cryptosystems

1987/01/01 by Neal Koblitz · 59 citations
Computer Science · #Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic #Cryptography and Data Security #Coding theory and cryptography

paper · pdf · doi:10.1090/s0025-5718-1987-0866109-5

Abstract

We discuss analogs based on elliptic curves over finite fields of public key cryptosystems which use the multiplicative group of a finite field. These elliptic curve cryptosystems may be more secure, because the analog of the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves is likely to be harder than the classical discrete logarithm problem, especially over <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="GF left-parenthesis 2 Superscript n Baseline right-parenthesis"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mtext>GF</mml:mtext> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:msup> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\text GF(2n)</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula>. We discuss the question of primitive points on an elliptic curve modulo <italic>p</italic>, and give a theorem on nonsmoothness of the order of the cyclic subgroup generated by a global point.

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