defeo/mathematicsofibc

Lecture notes on the Foundations of Isogeny-based Cryptography

mathematicsofibc's Issues

Compile errors

make (and manual comilation with pdflatex) gives the error message

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \bbl@ini@loaded

l.3188 \end{document}

Versions:

Latexmk, John Collins, 29 September 2020. Version 4.70b

$ pdflatex --version
MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.9.7338 (1.40.21) (MiKTeX 2.9.7380 64-bit)
Copyright (C) 1982 D. E. Knuth, (C) 1996-2020 Han The Thanh
TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.
using bzip2 version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010
compiled with curl version 7.61.1; using libcurl/7.61.1 WinSSL
compiled with expat version 2.2.6; using expat_2.2.6
compiled with jpeg version 9.3
compiled with liblzma version 50020042; using 50020042
compiled with libpng version 1.6.37; using 1.6.37
compiled with libressl version LibreSSL 2.8.2; using LibreSSL 2.8.2
compiled with MiKTeX Application Framework version 4.7348; using 4.7348
compiled with MiKTeX Core version 16.7375; using 16.7375
compiled with MiKTeX Archive Extractor version 1.6882; using 1.6882
compiled with MiKTeX Package Manager version 9.7364; using 9.7364
compiled with poppler version 0.60.1
compiled with uriparser version 0.9.2
compiled with zlib version 1.2.11; using 1.2.11

Possible typo in Velu Formula

Hello!
A Colleague and I found a possible typo in the velu formula and pinpointed it down to this line:

https://github.com/defeo/ema2017/blob/28d39639ce597e1a94a40fa58388347121967875/poly.tex#L1595

where instead of + b it should say + 2b.

Do you agree, and would you want a PR to fix it in case we did not make a mistake?

Russian references on isogenies

I'm looking at the "автореферат" of Rostovtsev (2002),
"Теоретическая криптография" book by Rostovtsev and Makhovenko (2004), and
"автореферат" of Aleksandrova-Makhovenko (2016).

It is clear that sources above are challenging to read, still this might serve as an indicator of progress with isogenies done in Russia.