On the last fall degree of zero-dimensional Weil descent systems

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DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2017.08.002zbMATH Open1391.13052arXiv1505.02532OpenAlexW1764529246MaRDI QIDQ1690789FDOQ1690789


Authors: Ming-Deh A. Huang, Michiel Kosters, Yun Yang, Sze Ling Yeo Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 January 2018

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we will discuss a new, mostly theoretical, method for solving (zero-dimensional) polynomial systems, which lies in between Gr"obner basis computations and the heuristic first fall degree assumption and is not based on any heuristic. This method relies on the new concept of last fall degree. Let k be a finite field of cardinality qn and let k be its subfield of cardinality q. Let mathcalFsubsetk[X0,ldots,Xm1] be a finite subset generating a zero-dimensional ideal. We give an upper bound of the last fall degree of the Weil descent system of mathcalF, which depends on q, m, the last fall degree of mathcalF, the degree of mathcalF and the number of solutions of mathcalF, but not on n. This shows that such Weil descent systems can be solved efficiently if n grows. In particular, we apply these results for multi-HFE and essentially show that multi-HFE is insecure. Finally, we discuss that the degree of regularity (or last fall degree) of Weil descent systems coming from summation polynomials to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem might depend on n, since such systems without field equations are not zero-dimensional.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02532




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