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Re:New algorithm shakes up cryptography by djmdjm on Saturday May 17, 2014 @06:55AM (#7759818)
AFAIK the relation to EC is that pairing-based cryptography is a popular (among academics at least) user of GF2m elliptic curves.
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Re:New algorithm shakes up cryptography by tptacek on Saturday May 17, 2014 @11:56AM (#7760479)
We're getting way past my comfort level, but the impact of the recent DLP attacks on pairing curves is because they involve mapping the curve problem into a multiplicative finite field, right? The DLP attacks themselves don't directly impact the ECDLP.
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