Primality proving with elliptic curves

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Théry;Guillaume Hanrot

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, France;INRIA, France

  • Venue:
  • TPHOLs'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Theorem proving in higher order logics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Elliptic curves are fascinating mathematical objects. In this paper, we present the way they have been represented inside the Coq system, and how we have proved that the classical composition law on the points is internal and gives them a group structure. We then describe how having elliptic curves inside a prover makes it possible to derive a checker for proving the primality of natural numbers.