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There is a great blog post by Wouter Castryck on the COSIC research group (KU Leuven) website about supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman (SIDH). I’ve been meaning to write about this for months but haven’t had the time. So in the meantime … Continue reading →

The list of accepted papers to Crypto 2017 is now online. Some highlights for ECC fans include: “The first collision for full SHA-1” by Marc Stevens, Elie Bursztein, Pierre Karpman, Ange Albertini and Yarik Markov “Fast Secure Two-Party ECDSA Signing” … Continue reading →

Eurocrypt 2017 was hosted by the ENS crypto group in Paris, France. There were four talks of special interest to researchers in curve-based cryptography, and a couple of items in the Rump Session. Twisted -normal form for elliptic curves David … Continue reading →

The 21st Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography will take place in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, November 13–15, 2017. — Steven Galbraith

The ECC 2017 conference will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, November 13-15, 2017. There will be a school held before the conference on November 9-11. More information is available at the conference page https://ecc2017.cs.ru.nl/

Asiacrypt was held in Hanoi this year and was extremely well organised. There were quite a few papers about elliptic curves, and related areas such as post-quantum cryptography. It is worth noting that the talks were all streamed online and … Continue reading →

A tweet today suggests the ECDLP computation started in the Faster discrete logarithms on FPGAs paper by Daniel J. Bernstein, Susanne Engels, Tanja Lange, Ruben Niederhagen, Christof Paar, Peter Schwabe and Ralf Zimmermann may have finally completed. See the below … Continue reading →