[Resource Topic] 2011/292: On Nonlinear Polynomial Selection and Geometric Progression (mod N) for Number Field Sieve

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Title:
On Nonlinear Polynomial Selection and Geometric Progression (mod N) for Number Field Sieve

Authors: Namhun Koo, Gooc Hwa Jo, Soonhak Kwon

Abstract:

The general number field sieve (GNFS) is asymptotically the fastest known factoring algorithm. One of the most important steps of GNFS is to select a good polynomial pair. A standard way of polynomial selection (being used in factoring RSA challenge numbers) is to select a nonlinear polynomial for algebraic sieving and a linear polynomial for rational sieving. There is another method called a nonlinear method which selects two polynomials of the same degree greater than one. In this paper, we generalize Montgomery’s method using small geometric progression (GP) (mod N) to construct a pair of nonlinear polynomials. We introduce GP of length d+k with 1\leq k\leq d-1 and show that we can construct polynomials of degree d having common root (mod N), where the number of such polynomials and the size of the coefficients can be precisely determined.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/292

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