[Resource Topic] 2023/1542: Don’t Forget Pairing-Friendly Curves with Odd Prime Embedding Degrees

Welcome to the resource topic for 2023/1542

Title:
Don’t Forget Pairing-Friendly Curves with Odd Prime Embedding Degrees

Authors: Yu Dai, Fangguo Zhang, Chang-an Zhao

Abstract:

Pairing-friendly curves with odd prime embedding degrees
at the 128-bit security level, such as BW13-310 and BW19-286, sparked
interest in the field of public-key cryptography as small sizes of the prime
fields. However, compared to mainstream pairing-friendly curves at the
same security level, i.e., BN446 and BLS12-446, the performance of pairing computations on BW13-310 and BW19-286 is usually considered
ineffcient. In this paper we investigate high performance software implementations of pairing computation on BW13-310 and corresponding
building blocks used in pairing-based protocols, including hashing, group
exponentiations and membership testings. Firstly, we propose effcient
explicit formulas for pairing computation on this curve. Moreover, we
also exploit the state-of-art techniques to implement hashing in G1 and
G2, group exponentiations and membership testings. In particular, for
exponentiations in G2 and GT , we present new optimizations to speed
up computational effciency. Our implementation results on a 64-bit processor show that the gap in the performance of pairing computation between BW13-310 and BN446 (resp. BLS12-446) is only up to 4.9% (resp.
26%). More importantly, compared to BN446 and BLS12-446, BW13-
310 is about 109.1% − 227.3%, 100% − 192.6%, 24.5% − 108.5% and
68.2% − 145.5% faster in terms of hashing to G1, exponentiations in G1
and GT , and membership testing for GT , respectively. These results reveal that BW13-310 would be an interesting candidate in pairing-based
cryptographic protocols.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1542

See all topics related to this paper.

Feel free to post resources that are related to this paper below.

Example resources include: implementations, explanation materials, talks, slides, links to previous discussions on other websites.

For more information, see the rules for Resource Topics .