The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) lies at the heart of modern public-key cryptography. It concerns the challenge of determining an unknown scalar multiplier given two points on an ...

I study the speed with which finite Markov chains approach their stationary distribution. Recent work has focused on the analysis of two early birthday attacks on problems related to cryptography: ...

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