Cryptographic Applications of Analytic Number Theory

I Preliminaries.- 1 Basic Notation and Definitions.- 2 Polynomials and Recurrence Sequences.- 3 Exponential Sums.- 4 Distribution and Discrepancy.- 5 Arithmetic Functions.- 6 Lattices and the Hidden Number Problem.- 7 Complexity Theory.- II Approximation and Complexity of the Discrete Logarithm.- 8 Approximation of the Discrete Logarithm Modulop.- 9 Approximation of the Discrete Logarithm Modulop -1.- 10 Approximation of the Discrete Logarithm by Boolean Functions.- 11 Approximation of the Discrete Logarithm by Real Polynomials.- III Approximation and Complexity of the Diffie-Hellman Secret Key.- 12 Polynomial Approximation and Arithmetic Complexity of the.- Diffie-Hellman Secret Key.- 13 Boolean Complexity of the Diffie-Hellman Secret Key.- 14 Bit Security of the Diffie-Hellman Secret Key.- IV Other Cryptographic Constructions.- 15 Security Against the Cycling Attack on the RSA and Timed-release Crypto.- 16 The Insecurity of the Digital Signature Algorithm with Partially Known Nonces.- 17 Distribution of the ElGamal Signature.- 18 Bit Security of the RSA Encryption and the Shamir Message Passing Scheme.- 19 Bit Security of the XTR and LUC Secret Keys.- 20 Bit Security of NTRU.- 21 Distribution of the RSA and Exponential Pairs.- 22 Exponentiation and Inversion with Precomputation.- V Pseudorandom Number Generators.- 23 RSA and Blum-Blum-Shub Generators.- 24 Naor-Reingold Function.- 25 1/M Generator.- 26 Inversive, Polynomial and Quadratic Exponential Generators.- 27 Subset Sum Generators.- VI Other Applications.- 28 Square-Freeness Testing and Other Number-Theoretic Problems.- 29 Trade-off Between the Boolean and Arithmetic Depths of ModulopFunctions.- 30 Polynomial Approximation, Permanents and Noisy Exponentiation in Finite Fields.- 31 Special Polynomials and BooleanFunctions.- VII Concluding Remarks and Open Questions.

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