Monthly Archives: January 2015

Erich Wenger and Paul Wolfger have just announced on NMBRTHRY a new ECDLP record computation. The curve is over the field and is not a Koblitz/subfield curve. So there is no speedup to Pollard rho from using equivalence classes under … Continue reading →

There is considerable ongoing discussion by standardisation committees about precisely which elliptic curves should be specified in crypto standards. One point of view on the merits of different choices is presented on the safe curves webpage, of Bernstein and Lange. … Continue reading →