BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68326d873b164 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210611T153000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210611T153000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/tutte-colloq uium-cecile-pierrot SUMMARY:Tutte Colloquium - Cécile Pierrot CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTITLE: The discrete logarithm problem in finite fi elds\n\nSpeaker:\n Cécile Pierrot\n\nAffliliation:\n French National Inst itute for Computer Science Research (INRIA)\n\nZoom:\n Contact Emma Watso n\n\nABSTRACT:\n\nThe security of currently deployed public key protocols relies on the\npresumed hardness of problems often coming from number theo ry\, such as\nfactoring a large integer or solving the discrete logarithm problem in\nsome group.\n\nIn this talk we focus on discrete logarithms in finite fields. We\nexplain what is a discrete logarithm\, why cryptograph ers need them\,\nand we focus then on algorithms to solve the related prob lem\, together\nwith open questions in this area.\n DTSTAMP:20250525T010823Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR