[Cryptography] O(q^(1/24)) ECDLP attack?

Phillip Hallam-Baker phill at hallambaker.com
Fri Apr 1 16:41:25 EDT 2016


On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:23 AM, David Johnston <dj at deadhat.com> wrote:
>
> This might turn out to be interesting:
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> https://ellipticnews.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/ecdlp-can-be-solved-in-24-th-root-time/

Like the liar sites that infest FaceBook etc., just more clickbait. I
doubt that more than about 5% of the audience would spot that the
article is a hoax so it wasn't actually funny.

The Onion stories aren't true either. But they don't try to be taken
as real and the point they are making is usually real and serious.


https://ellipticnews.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/ecdlp-is-not-broken-in-24-th-root-time/
ECDLP is not broken in 24-th root time

Posted on April 1, 2016by ellipticnews

In case anyone has not figured it out, yesterday’s blog post was an
April fool’s day hoax. The mathematical arguments written in the blog
post make absolutely no sense at all.

Normal service is now resumed. Ellipticnews will continue to be the
most reliable news source on the internet for information about new
results on the ECDLP.

— Steven Galbraith, April 2 (New Zealand time)


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