Efficient Isogeny Computations on Twisted Edwards Curves

Suhri Kim, Kisoon Yoon, Jihoon Kwon, Seokhie Hong, Young Ho Park

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    Abstract

    The isogeny-based cryptosystem is the most recent category in the field of postquantum cryptography. However, it is widely studied due to short key sizes and compatibility with the current elliptic curve primitives. The main building blocks when implementing the isogeny-based cryptosystem are isogeny computations and point operations. From isogeny construction perspective, since the cryptosystem moves along the isogeny graph, isogeny formula cannot be optimized for specific coefficients of elliptic curves. Therefore, Montgomery curves are used in the literature, due to the efficient point operation on an arbitrary elliptic curve. In this paper, we propose formulas for computing 3 and 4 isogenies on twisted Edwards curves. Additionally, we further optimize our isogeny formulas on Edwards curves and compare the computational cost of Montgomery curves. We also present the implementation results of our isogeny computations and demonstrate that isogenies on Edwards curves are as efficient as those on Montgomery curves.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number5747642
    JournalSecurity and Communication Networks
    Volume2018
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (no. NRF-2017R1A2B4011599).

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2018 Suhri Kim et al.

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Information Systems
    • Computer Networks and Communications

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