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Oisin Robinson

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arXiv2024

An Implementation of the Extended Tower Number Field Sieve using 4d Sieving in a Box and a Record Computation in Fp4

We report on an implementation of the Extended Tower Number Field Sieve (ExTNFS) and record computation in a medium characteristic finite field $\mathbb{F}_{p^4}$ of 512 bits size. Empirically, we show that sieving in a 4-dimensional box (orthotope) for collecting relations for ExTNFS in $\mathbb{F}_{p^4}$ is faster than sieving in a 4-dimensional hypersphere. We also give a new intermediate descent method, `descent using random vectors', without which the descent stage in our ExTNFS computation would have been difficult/impossible, and analyze its complexity.

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arXiv2020

A New Angle on Lattice Sieving for the Number Field Sieve

Lattice sieving in two or more dimensions has proven to be an indispensable practical aid in integer factorization and discrete log computations involving the number field sieve. The main contribution of this article is to show that a different method of lattice enumeration in three dimensions will provide a significant speedup. We use the successive minima and shortest vectors of the lattice instead of transition vectors to iterate through lattice points. We showcase the new method by a record computation in a 133-bit subgroup of $\mathbb{F}_{p^6}$, with $p^6$ having 423 bits. Our overall timing nearly $3$ times faster than the previous record of a 132-bit subgroup in a 422-bit field. The approach generalizes to dimensions 4 or more, overcoming a key obstruction to the implementation of the tower number field sieve.

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arXiv2017

Primes of the form n^2+n+p have density 1

We consider the representation of primes as a sum of a prime and twice a triangular number. We prove that a subset of the primes having density 1 is expressible in this form. We conjecture that every odd prime number is expressible as a sum of a twin prime and twice a triangular number. We show that this conjecture implies the existence of infinitely many twin primes.

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