Paper 2015/1018

A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma

Neal Koblitz and Alfred J. Menezes

Abstract

In August 2015 the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released a major policy statement on the need for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This announcement will be a great stimulus to the development, standardization, and commercialization of new quantumsafe algorithms. However, certain peculiarities in the wording and timing of the statement have puzzled many people and given rise to much speculation concerning the NSA, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), and quantum-safe cryptography. Our purpose is to attempt to evaluate some of the theories that have been proposed.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
NSApost-quantum cryptographyelliptic curve cryptographyNIST curves
Contact author(s)
koblitz @ uw edu
History
2018-05-20: last of 11 revisions
2015-10-21: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/1018
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/1018,
      author = {Neal Koblitz and Alfred J.  Menezes},
      title = {A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2015/1018},
      year = {2015},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018}
}
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