[Resource Topic] 2024/1150: Finding Practical Parameters for Isogeny-based Cryptography

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Title:
Finding Practical Parameters for Isogeny-based Cryptography

Authors: Maria Corte-Real Santos, Jonathan Komada Eriksen, Michael Meyer, Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez

Abstract:

Isogeny-based schemes often come with special requirements on the field of definition of the involved elliptic curves. For instance, the efficiency of SQIsign, a promising candidate in the NIST signature standardisation process, requires a large power of two and a large smooth integer T to divide p^2-1 for its prime parameter p.

We present two new methods that combine previous techniques for finding suitable primes: sieve-and-boost and XGCD-and-boost. We use these methods to find primes for the NIST submission of SQIsign. Furthermore, we show that our methods are flexible and can be adapted to find suitable parameters for other isogeny-based schemes such as AprèsSQI or POKE. For all three schemes, the parameters we present offer the best performance among all parameters proposed in the literature.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1150

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