Journal Title
Title of Journal: J Cryptology
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Abbravation: Journal of Cryptology
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag
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Authors: R Balasubramanian Neal Koblitz
Publish Date: 1998/03/01
Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-145
Abstract
The security of elliptic curve cryptosystems is based on the presumed intractability of the discrete logarithm problem on the curve Other than algorithms that work in an arbitrary group and are exponential in the general case the only generalpurpose algorithm that has ever been proposed for the elliptic curve discrete logarithm is that of Menezes—Okamoto—Vanstone MOV The MOV algorithm which embeds an elliptic curve group of prime order l in the multiplicative group of a field F qk is subexponential only under special circumstances however In this paper we first prove that under a mild condition that always holds in practical applications the condition that lq k 1 which is obviously necessary for realizing the MOV algorithm is also sufficient We next give an improved upper bound for the frequency of occurrence of pairs of primes l p such that lp k 1 for k small where l is in the Hasse interval p+12sqrtpp+1+2sqrtp
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