We characterize the irreducible polynomials that occur as the characteristic polynomial of an automorphism of an even unimodular lattice of a given signature, generalizing a theorem of Gross and McMullen. As part of the proof, we give a general criterion i ...
For~q a prime power, the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) in~\Fq consists in finding, for any g∈Fq× and h∈⟨g⟩, an integer~x such that gx=h. We present an algorithm for computing discrete logarithm ...
For any positive integers n≥3,r≥1 we present formulae for the number of irreducible polynomials of degree n over the finite field F2r where the coefficients of xn−1, xn−2 and xn−3 are zero. Our proofs involve coun ...
In this paper, we revisit the construction of fail-stop signatures from the factoring assumption. These signatures were originally proposed to provide information-theoretic-based security against forgeries. In contrast to classical signature schemes, in wh ...