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

  • Authors:
  • Alfred Menezes;Minghua Qu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CT-RSA 2001 Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Topics in Cryptology: The Cryptographer's Track at RSA
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

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.