Paper 2017/383 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2017/383 ↗
Super-Isolated Elliptic Curves and Abelian Surfaces in Cryptography
Abstract
We call a simple abelian variety over $\mathbb{F}_p$ super-isolated if its ($\mathbb{F}_p$-rational) isogeny class contains no other varieties. The motivation for considering these varieties comes from concerns about isogeny based attacks on the discrete log problem. We heuristically estimate that the number of super-isolated elliptic curves over $\mathbb{F}_p$ with prime order and $p \leq N$, is roughly $\tilde{\Theta}(\sqrt{N})$. In contrast, we prove that there are only 2 super-isolated surfaces of cryptographic size and near-prime order.
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PDF- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2017-05-04: last updated
- 2017-05-04: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2017/383
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/383,
author = {Travis Scholl},
title = {Super-Isolated Elliptic Curves and Abelian Surfaces in Cryptography},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2017/383},
year = {2017},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/383}
}