Generalised jacobians in cryptography and coding theory

  • Authors:
  • Florian Hess

  • Affiliations:
  • Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WAIFI'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Arithmetic of Finite Fields
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The use of generalised Jacobians in discrete logarithm based cryptosystems has so far been rather limited since they offer no advantage over traditional discrete logarithm based systems. In this paper we continue the search for possible applications in two directions. Firstly, we investigate pairings on generalised Jacobians and show that these are insecure. Secondly, generalising and extending prior work, we show how the discrete logarithm problem in generalised Jacobians can be reduced to the minimal non zero weight word and maximum likelihood decoding problems in generalised algebraic geometric codes.