Optimized Method for Computing Odd-Degree Isogenies on Edwards Curves

In this paper, we present an efficient method to compute arbitrary odd-degree isogenies on Edwards curves. By using the $w$-coordinate, we optimized the isogeny formula on Edwards curves by Moody and Shumow. We demonstrate that Edwards curves have an additional benefit when recovering the coefficient of the image curve during isogeny computation. For $\ell$-degree isogeny where $\ell=2s+1$, our isogeny formula on Edwards curves outperforms Montgomery curves when $s \geq 2$. To better represent the performance improvements when $w$-coordinate is used, we implement CSIDH using our isogeny formula. Our implementation is about 20\% faster than the previous implementation. The result of our work opens the door for the usage of Edwards curves in isogeny-based cryptography, especially for CSIDH which requires higher degree isogenies

A simple and compact algorithm for SIDH with arbitrary degree isogenies

We derive a new formula for computing arbitrary odd-degree isogenies between elliptic curves in Montgomery form. The formula lends itself to a simple and compact algorithm that can efficiently compute any low odd-degree isogenies inside the supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman (SIDH) key exchange protocol. Our implementation of this algorithm shows that, beyond the commonly used 3-isogenies, there is a moderate degradation in relative performance of $(2d+1)$-isogenies as $d$ grows, but that larger values of $d$ can now be used in practical SIDH implementations. We further show that the proposed algorithm can be used to both compute isogenies of curves and evaluate isogenies at points, unifying the two main types of functions needed for isogeny-based public-key cryptography. Together, these results open the door for practical SIDH on a much wider class of curves, and allow for simplified SIDH implementations that only need to call one general-purpose function inside the fundamental computation of the large degree secret isogenies. As an additional contribution, we also give new explicit formulas for 3- and 4-isogenies, and show that these give immediate speedups when substituted into pre-existing SIDH libraries