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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We provide a subexponential algorithm for solving the discrete logarithm problem in Jacobians of high-genus hyperelliptic curves over finite ...

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Consider an urn model where at each step one of q colors is sampled according to some probability distribution and a ball of that color is placed in an urn. The distribution of assigning balls to urns ...