Claus Diem


Theses

Diplomarbeit (Master's thesis): Zur Inversen Galoisschen Theorie in positiver Charakteristik: Starrheitssätze (On Inverse Galois Theory in Positive Characteristic: Rigitity Theorems) (pdf, dvi)

Dissertation: A Study on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Weil-Restrictions of Varieties (pdf, dvi)

Habilitation: On arithmetic and the discrete logarithm problem in class groups of curves (dvi, pdf), Errata (dvi, pdf)


Publications in scientific journals

The GHS Attack in odd Characteristic, J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 18, No.1, 1-32 (2003) (pdf, dvi)

On the Structure of Weil Restrictions of Abelian Varieties (with Niko Naumann), J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 18, No.2, 153-174 (2003) (pdf, dvi)

Ordinary elliptic curves of high rank over Fp(x) with constant j-invariant (with Irene Bouw and Jasper Scholten), manuscripta mathematica 114, 487-501 (2004) (pdf)

Families of elliptic curves with genus 2 covers of degree 2, Collectanea Mathematica 57, 1-25 (2006) (pdf, dvi)

A double large prime variation for small genus hyperelliptic index calculus (with Pierrick Gaudry, Emmanuel Thomé and Nicolas Thériault), Mathematics of Computation 76, 475-492 (2007) (pdf)

Ordinary elliptic curves of high rank over Fp(x) with constant j-invariant II (with Jasper Scholten), Journal of Number Theory 124, 31-41 (2007) (pdf, dvi)

Non-constant curves of genus 2 with infinite pro-Galois covers (with Gerhard Frey), Israel Journal of Mathematics, 164, 193-220 (2008) (pdf, dvi)

Index calculus in class groups of non-hyperelliptic curves of genus three (with Emmanuel Thomé), Journal of Cryptology 21, 593-611 (2008) (pdf, dvi)

On the discrete logarithm problem in class groups of curves, Mathematics of Computation, 80, 443-475 (2011) (pdf, dvi)

On the discrete logarithm problem in elliptic curves, Compositio Mathematica 147, 75-104 (2011) (pdf, dvi)

On the use of expansion series for stream ciphers, LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics 15, 326-340 (2012) (pdf, dvi)

On the discrete logarithm problem for plane curves, Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux 24, 639-667 (2012) (pdf, dvi)

On the discrete logarithm problem in elliptic curves II Algebra & Number Theory 7, 1281-1323 (2013) (pdf, dvi)

Bounded regularity, Journal of Algebra 423, 1143-1160 (2015) (pdf, dvi)


Publications in refereed conference proceedings

The XL-Algorithm and a Conjecture from Commutative Algebra, Advances in cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2004, Springer LNCS 3329, 323-337 (2004). (For this work, I obtained the "Best Paper Award" of the conference Asiacrypt 2004.) (pdf, dvi)

An Index Calculus Algorithm for Plane Curves of Small Degree, Algorithmic Number Theory - ANTS VII, Springer LNCS 4076 (2006) (pdf, dvi)

Computation of a 768-bit prime field discrete logarithm (with T.Kleinjung, A.Lenstra, C.Priplata and C.Stahlke), Eurocrypt 2017, Part I, Springer LNCS 10210, 178-194 (2017) (pdf)


Invited scientific articles

On the notion of bit complexity, Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (in the "Complexity Column") 103, 35-52 (2011) (pdf, dvi)

Cryptology - Methods, Applications and Challenges, Mathematics and Society (Wolfgang König, editor), European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 221-250, 2016 (pdf)


Journalistic articles

Wie macht man eigentlich einen unknackbaren Geheimcode?, Alumni-Magazin der Universität, p.45, 2010

Gegen die Apokalypse -- Algorithmenwettbewerb zur Post-Quanten-Kryptographie (with Klaus Schmeh), iX, 116-120, 06/2018


Submitted Works

Ordinary plane models and completely split divisors (with S.Kochinke) (pdf)


Further works

Computing discrete logarithms with pencils (with S.Kochinke) (pdf)

What do you claim when you say you have a proof? (with C.Schulze) (pdf) (new version from May 19, 2019)

Abstract algorithms (pdf)

On the complexity of some computational problems in the Turing model (pdf, dvi)

Computing discrete logarithms with special linear systems (with S. Kochinke) (dvi, pdf) (This work contains and expands the older work "Computing discrete logarithms with pencils". A Magma-Program for the "practical algorithm" based in pencils can be found here.)

Index calculus in class groups of non-hyperelliptic curves of genus 3 from a full cost perspective, a contribution to Sharcs 2006 (pdf, dvi)

Cover attacks (pdf, dvi) (with Jasper Scholten), a report for the AREHCC projekt (a former project by the EU for cryptography with elliptic and hyperelliptic curves)

Systems of polynomial equations associated to elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems (pdf, dvi)

An Attack on a Trace-Zero Cryptosystem (with Jasper Scholten) (pdf, dvi)


Talks

On the ECDLP over Extension Fields (pdf) (This is my first public talk about my subexponentiality result for the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem over extension fields. I gave this talk at the second day of the conference after on the first day Pierrick Gaudry mentioned my at that time heuristic result.)

An index calculus algorithm for non-singular plane curves of high genus (pdf) (Talk for "ECC 2006")

What is Index Calculus? (pdf) (An introductory talk with a new result.)

Sur le problème du logarithme discret dans les courbes elliptiques (pdf)




   


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