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A few days ago (April 10, 2019) Takakazu Satoh posted on eprint the paper Miller Inversion is Easy for the Reduced Tate Pairing on Trace Zero Supersingular Curves on eprint. I was delighted to hear from Takakazu Satoh, as I … Continue reading →

The American Mathematical Society Spring Central and Western Joint Sectional Meeting was held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in Honolulu during March 22-24, 2019. There was a Special Session on The Mathematics of Cryptography organised by Shahed Sharif … Continue reading →

The Eurocrypt 2019 program features a lot of interesting papers. There are two papers relevant to isogeny crypto: Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, Chloe Martindale and Lorenz Panny. Quantum Circuits for the CSIDH: Optimizing Quantum Evaluation of Isogenies. Luca De … Continue reading →

Wouter Castryck has written a blog post to explain CSIDH: Post-quantum key exchange using isogeny-based group actions. You can watch the Habilitation thesis talk by Luca de Feo on Exploring isogeny graphs. — Steven Galbraith

Asiacrypt 2018 was held at QUT in Brisbane, Australia on December 2-6, 2018. It was wonderfully organised by Josef Pieprzyk. The three plenary invited speakers were: Mitsuru Matsui (Mitsubishi) “25 Years of linear cryptanalysis – Early History and Path Search … Continue reading →

As announced earlier on this blog, the 22nd Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography took place at Osaka University, Japan, from November 19 to 21. This edition featured invited talks across a broad range of topics, from quantum information theory to … Continue reading →

I have made available for free a corrected version of my book “Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography”. You can access it here. I have fixed all the typos and errors that I was aware of (most of them documented in … Continue reading →