Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography (Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications) by Henri Cohen
English | July 19, 2005 | ISBN: 1584885181 | 843 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The discrete logarithm problem based on elliptic and hyperelliptic curves has gained a lot of popularity as a cryptographic primitive. The main reason is that no subexponential algorithm for computing discrete logarithms on small genus curves is currently available, except in very special cases.