Applications[edit]

The pairing is used in number theory and algebraic geometry, and has also been applied in elliptic curve cryptography and identity based encryption.

Tate pairing

Pairing-based cryptography

Boneh–Franklin scheme

Homomorphic Signatures for Network Coding

(1940), "Sur les fonctions algébriques à corps de constantes fini", Les Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 210: 592–594, MR 0002863

Weil, André

The Weil pairing on elliptic curves over C (PDF)