Review: Guide to Pairing-Based Cryptography

Guide to Pairing-Based Cryptography by Nadia El Mrabet
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Many texts in this realm devote space to enciphering history. Much of that material seems quaint and more entertaining than material when presented. In this case, mathematical background in cryptographic usage of elliptic curves over a finite field offers a more modern and useful set of fundamentals. You will just have to read about the antique Caesar cipher elsewhere. This spreads over several chapters for a very self-contained offering. This implementation sourcebook includes background theory in pairings, finite field arithmetic, scalar multiplication and exponentiation in pairing groups, discrete logarithms, cyclotomic groups, hashing into elliptic curves, pairing-friendly elliptic curves, and more.
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