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This chapter discusses a class of groups called elliptic curves, which arise from algebraic geometry. We can compute efficiently in them and, in general, only the slow generic algorithms for discrete logarithms (Section 4.9) are known.
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von zur Gathen, J. (2015). Chapter 5 Elliptic curves. In: CryptoSchool. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48425-8_7
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