
ACI Journal Articles
Title
On Prym varieties for the coverings of some singular plane curves
Document Type
Article
USMA Research Unit Affiliation
Army Cyber Institute
Publication Date
3-8-2018
Abstract
In this paper we study factors of Prym varieties associated to algebraic curves. Studying these type of covers is interesting in cryptography since using the index calculus methods on the curve enables one to compute the discreet log problem (DLP) faster than with Pollard's rho method.
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