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Distribution of elliptic twins over fixed finite fields: Numerical results

Cryptography and Security 2015-09-11 v3

Abstract

We report numerical results, and describe plans for future experiments, related to the number of prime-order curves and "elliptic twin" curves over the primes P-224, P-256, and P-384 standardized by NIST for cryptographic applications. Although these results are not sufficient to confirm the formula of Shparlinski and Sutantyo 2014 over these fields, they strongly suggest (~99% probability) that the NIST curve P-384 was not chosen from a uniform distribution over prime-order curves.

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@article{arxiv.1506.07269,
  title  = {Distribution of elliptic twins over fixed finite fields: Numerical results},
  author = {David Leon Gil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07269},
  year   = {2015}
}