Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NTT are to jointly develop an elliptic curve cryptosystem. “There is a pressing need to establish a fundamental technology to realise a truly secure communications ...

Rapidly rising cyber crime and the growing prospect of the Internet being used as a medium for terrorist attacks pose a major challenge for IT security. Cryptography is central to this challenge, ...

Alexander Smith’s work on the Goldfeld conjecture reveals fundamental characteristics of elliptic curves. Elliptic curves seem to admit infinite variety, but they really only come in two flavors. That ...