Mathematics of Discrete Logarithms

Workshop
October 8-9, 2003


Wednesday, October 8

10:00 arival and coffee

10:15-11:15 Roberto Avanzi: The cryptographic marriage of Frobenius and point halving 

11:45-12:45 Roger Oyono: Arithmetic in Jacobians of Picard Curves

14:30-15:30 Christophe Ritzenthaler: AGM method for non hyperelliptic genus 3 curves

16:00-17:00 Enric Nart: Jacobians in isogeny classes of simple abelian surfaces over finite fields



Thursday, October 9

9:00  coffee

9:15 -10:15 Nicolas Thériault: Index calculus attack for hyperelliptic curves of small genus

10:45-11:45 Tanja Lange: Cryptographic applications of trace zero varieties

13:15-14:15 Jasper Scholten: Cover attacks on discrete logarithm problems in trace zero varieties

14:30-15:30 Claus Diem: Extended Linearization and discrete logarithm problems