New Version of Magic Box Paper

I’ve just posted an updated version of the paper.  Most of the changes are editorial, but there are also two substantive improvements:

(1) Sec. 6.3 now proposes Fibonacci exponentiation as a potential way to implement a generic exponentiator that could produce the “elusive” eigenstate.  (Fibonacci exponentiation methods will be explored further in a forthcoming paper.)

(2) A new Sec. 6.8 describes an approach where multiple magic box implementations collaborate to solve a discrete logarithm problem

— Burt

• Update:  The paper is now posted as IACR ePrint 2017/745.