Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NTT are to jointly develop an elliptic curve cryptosystem. “There is a pressing need to establish a fundamental technology to realise a truly secure communications ...

Elliptic curves are among the more beguiling objects in modern mathematics. They don’t seem complicated, but they form an expressway between the math that many people learn in high school and research ...

When it comes to public key cryptography, most systems today are still stuck in the 1970s. On December 14, 1977, two events occurred that would change the world: Paramount Pictures released Saturday ...

The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) lies at the heart of modern public-key cryptography. It concerns the challenge of determining an unknown scalar multiplier given two points on an ...

Most currently used public-key cryptosystems like e.g. the Rivest, Shamir and Adleman (RSA) cryptosystem and Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems (ECC) are under the threat of attacks performed on quantum ...