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CTIDH: faster constant-time CSIDH

Gustavo Banegas, Daniel J. Bernstein, Fábio Campos, Tung Chou, Tanja Lange, Michaël Meyer, Benjamin Smith, Jana Sotáková

2021IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems34 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

This paper introduces a new key space for CSIDH and a new algorithm for constant-time evaluation of the CSIDH group action. The key space is not useful with previous algorithms, and the algorithm is not useful with previous key spaces, but combining the new key space with the new algorithm produces speed records for constant-time CSIDH. For example, for CSIDH-512 with a 256-bit key space, the best previous constant-time results used 789000 multiplications and more than 200 million Skylake cycles; this paper uses 438006 multiplications and 125.53 million cycles.

Topics & Concepts

Key (lock)Constant (computer programming)Computer scienceAlgorithmKey spaceSpace (punctuation)MathematicsTheoretical computer scienceCryptographyComputer securityProgramming languageOperating systemCoding theory and cryptographyCryptographic Implementations and SecurityParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques