Enge Elliptic Curves and Their Applications to Cryptography

An Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4615-5207-9
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten, eBook

Since their invention in the late seventies, public key cryptosystems have become an indispensable asset in establishing private and secure electronic communication, and this need, given the tremendous growth of the Internet, is likely to continue growing. Elliptic curve cryptosystems represent the state of the art for such systems.

Elliptic Curves and Their Applications to Cryptography: AnIntroduction

provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to elliptic curves and how they are employed to secure public key cryptosystems. Even though the elegant mathematical theory underlying cryptosystems is considerably more involved than for other systems, this text requires the reader to have only an elementary knowledge of basic algebra. The text nevertheless leads to problems at the forefront of current research, featuring chapters on point counting algorithms and security issues. The Adopted unifying approach treats with equal care elliptic curves over fields of even characteristic, which are especially suited for hardware implementations, and curves over fields of odd characteristic, which have traditionally received more attention.

Elliptic Curves and Their Applications: An Introduction

has been used successfully for teaching advanced undergraduate courses. It will be of greatest interest to mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers who are curious about elliptic curve cryptography in practice, without losing the beauty of the underlying mathematics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Enge, Andreas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Public Key Cryptography.- 2. The Group Law on Elliptic Curves.- 3. Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields.- 4. The Discrete Logarithm Problem.- 5. Counting Points on Elliptic Curves.- References.