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AFAIK the relation to EC is that pairing-based cryptography is a popular (among academics at least) user of GF2m elliptic curves.
by djmdjm 12y ago
AFAIK the relation to EC is that pairing-based cryptography is a popular (among academics at least) user of GF2m elliptic curves.
- tptacek 12y agoWe'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.