Starfish on Strike

This paper improves the price-performance ratio of ECM, the elliptic-curve method of integer factorization. In particular, this paper constructs "a = -1" twisted Edwards curves having Q-torsion group Z/2

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: LATINCRYPT
• Authors: Daniel J. Bernstein, Peter Birkner, Tanja Lange
• Keywords: Cryptology, Effective Curves, Integer Factorization, LATINCRYPT 2010, Price-performance Ratio