302 research outputs found
Isogeny-based post-quantum key exchange protocols
The goal of this project is to understand and analyze the supersingular isogeny Diffie Hellman (SIDH), a post-quantum key exchange protocol which security lies on the isogeny-finding problem between supersingular elliptic curves. In order to do so, we first introduce the reader to cryptography focusing on key agreement protocols and motivate the rise of post-quantum cryptography as a necessity with the existence of the model of quantum computation. We review some of the known attacks on the SIDH and finally study some algorithmic aspects to understand how the protocol can be implemented
Fast algorithms for computing isogenies between ordinary elliptic curves in small characteristic
The problem of computing an explicit isogeny between two given elliptic
curves over F_q, originally motivated by point counting, has recently awaken
new interest in the cryptology community thanks to the works of Teske and
Rostovstev & Stolbunov.
While the large characteristic case is well understood, only suboptimal
algorithms are known in small characteristic; they are due to Couveignes,
Lercier, Lercier & Joux and Lercier & Sirvent. In this paper we discuss the
differences between them and run some comparative experiments. We also present
the first complete implementation of Couveignes' second algorithm and present
improvements that make it the algorithm having the best asymptotic complexity
in the degree of the isogeny.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Submitted to J. Number Theor
Computing cardinalities of Q-curve reductions over finite fields
We present a specialized point-counting algorithm for a class of elliptic
curves over F\_{p^2} that includes reductions of quadratic Q-curves modulo
inert primes and, more generally, any elliptic curve over F\_{p^2} with a
low-degree isogeny to its Galois conjugate curve. These curves have interesting
cryptographic applications. Our algorithm is a variant of the
Schoof--Elkies--Atkin (SEA) algorithm, but with a new, lower-degree
endomorphism in place of Frobenius. While it has the same asymptotic asymptotic
complexity as SEA, our algorithm is much faster in practice.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of ANTS-XII. Added acknowledgement of
Drew Sutherlan
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