A review on the isomorphism classes of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2 over finite fields admitting a Weierstrass point (Q850776)

It is well-known so far that very interesting connections with cryptography matters can be obtained by using hyperelliptic curves, specially in characteristic 2 or 3; see e.g. \textit{L. M. Adleman, J. DeMarrais} and \textit{M.-D. Huang} [Algorithmic number theory. 1st international symposium, ANTS--I, Ithaca, NY, USA. May 6--9, 1994. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 877, 28--40 (1994; Zbl 0829.11068)]. In characteristic 2, these curves were classified by \textit{G. Cardona, E. Nart} and \textit{Pujolás} [Curves of genus two over fields of even characteristic. \url{http:\slash\slash www.arxiv.org/math.NT/0210105}]. In this paper the authors consider non-isomorphic plane models of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2 admitting a Weierstrass point over an arbitrary finite field. As a matter of fact, they subsume results that were noticed and published by several authors by working with different methods. These plane models allow us to design and implement the so called hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems.