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Analysis of the Weil Descent Attack of Gaudry, Hess and Smart

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We analyze the Weil descent attack of Gaudry, Hess and Smart [11] on the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem for elliptic curves defined over finite fields of characteristic two.

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  1. Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Canada

    Alfred Menezes

  2. Certicom Research, Canada

    Alfred Menezes & Minghua Qu

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Menezes, A., Qu, M. (1999). Analysis of the Weil Descent Attack of Gaudry, Hess and Smart. In: Naccache, D. (eds) Topics in Cryptology — CT-RSA 2001. CT-RSA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2020. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45353-9_23

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