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Pairings on Elliptic Curves
Authors
Frederik Vercauteren
Pages
13 - 30
DOI
10.3233/978-1-58603-947-9-13
Category
Chapter II
Series
Cryptology and Information Security Series
Ebook
Volume 2: Identity-Based Cryptography
Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of the various pairings on elliptic curves used in pairing based cryptography and explains the necessary mathematical background. Several constructions of pairing friendly elliptic curves are also reviewed.