[Resource Topic] 2016/1102: Challenges with Assessing the Impact of NFS Advances on the Security of Pairing-based Cryptography

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Title:
Challenges with Assessing the Impact of NFS Advances on the Security of Pairing-based Cryptography

Authors: Alfred Menezes, Palash Sarkar, Shashank Singh

Abstract:

In the past two years there have been several advances in Number Field Sieve (NFS) algorithms for computing discrete logarithms in finite fields \mathbb{F}_{p^n} where p is prime and n > 1 is a small integer. This article presents a concise overview of these algorithms and discusses some of the challenges with assessing their impact on keylengths for pairing-based cryptosystems.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1102

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