Virtual logarithms

  • Authors:
  • Oliver Schirokauer

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The modification of the number field sieve which Joux and Lercier recently used to compute logarithms in a prime field of a record 120 decimal digits makes use of the notion of a virtual logarithm of a prime ideal in a number ring. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for their method to succeed and give an explicit formula for the virtual logarithm of an ideal.