An eprint paper claims an improvement over Pollard Rho vs the FIPS K-409 and K-571 curves:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/310.pdf Seems like this might be building on the direction described below, from the "ellipticnews" blog: https://ellipticnews.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/two-new-papers-on-the-ecdlp-in-characteristic-2/ Anyone able to place the work in context? (is this a real improvement? by how much? what are prospects for further advances, application to other curves, etc.) Trevor _______________________________________________ Curves mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/curves
