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Algorithms in Elliptic Curve Cryptography

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2018
Abstract/Description:
Elliptic curves have played a large role in modern cryptography. Most notably, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and the Elliptic Curve Di e-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange algorithm are widely used in practice today for their e ciency and small key sizes. More recently, the Supersingular Isogeny-based Di e-Hellman (SIDH) algorithm provides a method of exchanging keys which is conjectured to be secure in the post-quantum setting. For ECDSA and ECDH, e cient and secure algorithms for scalar multiplication of points are necessary for modern use of these protocols. Likewise, in SIDH it is necessary to be able to compute an isogeny from a given nite subgroup of an elliptic curve in a fast and secure fashion. We therefore nd strong motivation to study and improve the algorithms used in elliptic curve cryptography, and to develop new algorithms to be deployed within these protocols. In this thesis we design and develop d-MUL, a multidimensional scalar multiplication algorithm which is uniform in its operations and generalizes the well known 1-dimensional Montgomery ladder addition chain and the 2-dimensional addition chain due to Dan J. Bernstein. We analyze the construction and derive many optimizations, implement the algorithm in software, and prove many theoretical and practical results. In the nal chapter of the thesis we analyze the operations carried out in the construction of an isogeny from a given subgroup, as performed in SIDH. We detail how to e ciently make use of parallel processing when constructing this isogeny.
Title: Algorithms in Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
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Name(s): Hutchinson, Aaron, author
Karabina, Koray, Thesis advisor
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Created: 2018
Date Issued: 2018
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 148 p.
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Elliptic curves have played a large role in modern cryptography. Most notably, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and the Elliptic Curve Di e-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange algorithm are widely used in practice today for their e ciency and small key sizes. More recently, the Supersingular Isogeny-based Di e-Hellman (SIDH) algorithm provides a method of exchanging keys which is conjectured to be secure in the post-quantum setting. For ECDSA and ECDH, e cient and secure algorithms for scalar multiplication of points are necessary for modern use of these protocols. Likewise, in SIDH it is necessary to be able to compute an isogeny from a given nite subgroup of an elliptic curve in a fast and secure fashion. We therefore nd strong motivation to study and improve the algorithms used in elliptic curve cryptography, and to develop new algorithms to be deployed within these protocols. In this thesis we design and develop d-MUL, a multidimensional scalar multiplication algorithm which is uniform in its operations and generalizes the well known 1-dimensional Montgomery ladder addition chain and the 2-dimensional addition chain due to Dan J. Bernstein. We analyze the construction and derive many optimizations, implement the algorithm in software, and prove many theoretical and practical results. In the nal chapter of the thesis we analyze the operations carried out in the construction of an isogeny from a given subgroup, as performed in SIDH. We detail how to e ciently make use of parallel processing when constructing this isogeny.
Identifier: FA00013113 (IID)
Degree granted: Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018.
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Includes bibliography.
Subject(s): Curves, Elliptic
Cryptography
Algorithms
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