Monthly Archives: December 2012

I learned that David G. Cantor died at the age of 77.  A small article is here.  I never met him, but he is well-known due to his paper “Computing in the Jacobian of a hyperelliptic curve” in Mathematics of … Continue reading →

Asiacrypt 2012 was held during December 2-6 in the Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China. In the first session on Monday a paper by Hayashi, Shimoyama, Shinohara and Takagi was presented. They outline how they broke a eta_T pairing by … Continue reading →

Recently the paper Candidate Multilinear Maps from Ideal Lattices and Applications, by Sanjam Garg, Craig Gentry and Shai Halevi, has been posted on eprint. The paper gives a construction of multi-linear maps, and gives some applications. Let’s first recall the … Continue reading →