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State of the art on attempts to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem through transfering the problem to a weaker curve
Let an elliptic curve $E$, and 2 points on such curve $P$ and $O$ the methods I’m talking about consist in creating a weaker elliptic curve $F$ and mapping $P$ and $O$ to $F$ while successfully ...
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How to apply Pohlig Hellman using a very limited set of auxiliary inputs in that case?
So I was reading about Talotti, Paier, and Miculan - ECC’s Achilles’ Heel: Unveiling Weak Keys in Standardized Curves. The underlying idea is to lift the discrete logarithm problem to $\mathrm{prime}−...
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A candidate for one-way functions
For every $n \geq 3$ consider a bipartite random $3$-regular graph $G_n$ with two parts $X=\{x_1, \dotsc, x_n\}$ and $Y=\{y_1, \dotsc, y_n\}$. For any $i \leq n$ assign either 0 or 1 to each vertex $...
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Bent vectors and $\pm 1$ eigenvectors with respect to non-Sylvester Hadamard matrices
A Hadamard matrix is an $n\times n$-matrix $H$ where each entry in $H$ is $\pm 1$ and where $H/\sqrt{n}$ is orthogonal. It is well-known that if $H$ is an $n\times n$-Hadamard matrix, then $n<3$ or ...
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Partitions of bent vectors
Let $H=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{bmatrix}1 & 1 \\ 1 & -1\end{bmatrix}.$ Let $A^{\otimes N}$ denote the tensor product of the matrix $A$ with itself taken $N$ times. We say that a vector $v$ of ...
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Are there any homomorphic analog error correction code?
Are there any analog error correction codes that are additively and multiplicatively homomorphic?
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Maximum number of vectors with upper bound on pairwise inner products
I have a collection $\{v_1,...,v_k\}$ of vectors in $\{\pm 1\}^n$ with the property that for all $i\neq j$ we have $\langle v_i, v_j \rangle \le c\log_2(n)$. I am looking for an upper bound on $k$ in ...
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Is this model of converting integers to Gray code correct?
The model shown in the figure converts all numbers that have k digits in the binary system to Gray code without any calculation, but I have no proof that guarantees this claim.
Here is some ...
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Minimum number of operations necessary to arrive at any configuration
Let $k \geq 2$ and $N_1, N_2, ..., N_k$ be positive integers.
Let $S=\{(a_1,a_2,...,a_k) \in \mathbb{Z}^k:1 \leq a_i \leq N_i\}$ and $A=\{1,2,...,\prod_{i=1}^{k} N_{i}\}$.
Given a bijective map $f:...
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Number of iterations required for a transposition cipher to yield the original input
I have asked this question on math.stackexchange.com but received no response; hoping someone on here can help.
Suppose a function $f$, representing what I call a "dynamic transposition cipher" ...
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A question related to Boolean functions? [closed]
Let $Z_2=\{0,1\}$, $Z_2^r=Z_2\times Z_2 \times...\times Z_2,$ $S_1\subset Z_2^{n_1}$ and $S_2\subset Z_2^{n_2}$, $S=(S_2,S_1)\subset Z_2^{n_1+n_2}$, I'd like to construct $S_1$ and $S_2$ s.t the ...
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lower bound for solve ECDLP
Let $P$ and $Q$ are two points of NIST elliptic curve $E$ (defined over $F_{2^m}$ with prime $m$) and $k$ is a private key such that $k.P=Q$. Suppose $\ell$ be the number of bits in $k$, and let $k_i$ ...
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Reduced echelon form of sparce matrices and constructing hash function
Let $G$ be a $d$-regular graph, and $A$ be the incidence matrix of $G$. Also suppose $B$ is a reduced echelon form of $A$ such that computations are in $\mathbb F_2$. Given matrix $B$, can we find ...
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“The Two Sheriffs” puzzle -2: threshold for security
I've already asked a question “The Two Sheriffs” puzzle with wrong assumption. Yoav Kallus in his amazing answer using Fano plane showed that the problem has a solution in the case of seven suspects.
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A balls and urns model for a hashing problem
Fix $N \in \mathbb{N}$. Suppose we throw $N$ numbered balls into $N$ numbered urns, so that for each $b \in \{1,\ldots,N\}$, ball $b$ lands in urn $j$ with equal probability $1/N$. Choose a number $c \...
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Combinations Question about the construction of some special sets [closed]
Let $n$ and $k$ be two given numbers. The goal is to choose $n$ subsets from $\{1,2,...,n\}$ such that the union of any $k$ of these subsets is the set $\{1,2,...,n\}$ and the union of any $m < k$ ...
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What can I say about the permutation $\alpha\beta$ if I know the permutation $\beta\alpha$?
I'm looking into a secret sharing scheme that has a secret permutation $\theta$ which has the cycle structure (n/2)+(n/2) (i.e. two (n/2)-cycles).
The permutation $\theta$ is decomposed into two ...
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