IACR News item: 25 April 2016
Sanjit Chatterjee, Alfred Menezes, Francisco Rodriguez-Henriquez
ePrint Report
We observe that the conventional classification of pairings into Types 1, 2, 3 and 4 is not applicable to pairings from elliptic curves with embedding degree one. We define three kinds of pairings from these elliptic curves, and discuss some subtleties with using them to implement pairing-based protocols.
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