L8: Pairings
Topics
- Pairings-based cryptography: 3-party key-exchange, short signatures, hashing to elliptic curves
Readings
- Short Signatures from the Weil Pairing, by Dan Boneh, Ben Lynn, and Hovav Shacham (Asiacrypt 2001)
- Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing, By Dan Boneh and Matthew Franklin (Crypto 2001). This paper is quite approachable and enjoyable to read