Monthly Archives: May 2013

Joux kills pairings in characteristic 2

Antoine Joux has announced a new discrete logarithm record. This time the field is GF( 2^(257*24)). The computation took about “550 CPU hours” (i.e., less than a month on one CPU). As is typical for this new type of algorithm, … Continue reading

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