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On a (Flawed) Proposal to Build More Pairing-Friendly Curves

Authors:
Michael Scott
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/362
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Abstract: In a recent letter, Cui, Duan and Chan propose a generalisation of the Scott-Barreto method to build a larger family of MNT curves, and they claim that their proposal is also applicable to other curve construction methods. Here we show that the Cui-Duan-Chan technique is irrecoverably flawed.
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@misc{eprint-2005-12696,
  title={On a (Flawed) Proposal to Build More Pairing-Friendly Curves},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={public-key cryptography / pairing-based cryptography, elliptic curves},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/362},
  note={ pbarreto@larc.usp.br 13063 received 7 Oct 2005},
  author={Michael Scott and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto},
  year=2005
}