[Cryptography] New attacks on discrete logs?

[Hanno Böck]

On Thu, 22 May 2014 13:39:16 +1000
"James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:

> On 2014-05-22 11:00, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> > I can't figure out from these two articles exactly what's been
> > attacked.  (It's not even clear to me if they are describing two
> > *different* attacks.)  Anyone been following the details?
> >
> > http://phys.org/news/2014-05-unassailable-encryption-algorithm-hours.html
> >
> > http://phys.org/news/2014-05-algorithm-cryptography.html
> 
> Certain special curves were proposed, were patented, were
> investigated. Turns out those curves suck.
> 
> No one has implemented encryption based on those curves, because,
> being investigated and suspected of suckage.

This paper has nothing to do with elliptic curves at all.

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