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 ...

He disputes the significance of recent mathematical work claimed to address the discrete log problem and says he knows of no mathematical work that would really undermine the important assumptions.

Researchers have solved one aspect of the discrete logarithm problem. This is considered to be one of the 'holy grails' of algorithmic number theory, on which the security of many cryptographic ...

To demonstrate this, the researchers created a backdoored 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman prime and showed that solving the discrete log problem for it is several orders of magnitude easier than for a ...

New crypto-cracking record reached, with less help than usual from Moore’s Law 795-bit factoring and discrete logarithms achieved using more efficient algorithms.

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC): Bitcoin’s security depends on the difficulty of solving the discrete logarithm problem, which classical computers cannot break efficiently.