Recently, efficient custom-hardware designs were proposed for the linear algebra step of the Number Field Sieve integer factoring algorithm. These designs make use of a heuristic ...
We define the weight of an integer N to be the smallest w such that N can be represented as w i=1 i2ci , with 1,..., w{1,-1}. Since arithmetic modulo a prime of low weight is parti...
Using a number field sieve, discrete logarithms modulo primes of special forms can be found faster than standard primes. This has raised concerns about trapdoors in discrete log cr...
Significant progress in the design of special purpose hardware for supporting the Number Field Sieve (NFS) has been made. From a practical cryptanalytic point of view, however, no...