What is an elliptic curve?

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A Physical Model for Elliptic Curves

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A Physical Model for Elliptic Curves

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A Physical Model for Elliptic Curves

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How to use that in crypto?

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Cloud Power!!

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Parallelization!!!!!

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

100% green crypto attack

Bye-bye point counting!

Works well up to countably infinite number #points (roughly)

Cons

Only works well in Brittany (or rainy places…)

Results

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Results

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Perspectives

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•Get more computing power (e.g. privatize UK…)

•Badly need a Photoshop license

Merci

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