DEVELOPMENT OF CURVE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHY
Roberto Maria Avanzi · 2007
The last years have witnessed tremendous developments in the field of curve based cryptography. First proposed in 1985 by Koblitz and Miller, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) slowly proved itself to be a valid alternative to RSA. Later, also hyperelliptic curves have been added to the arsenal of cryptographic primitives. Today curve based cryptography is a well established technology. In this survey we shall first very broadly review its development, and we shall then move to a survey of recent results dealing specifically with Koblitz curves.