Generating pairing-friendly elliptic curve parameters using sparse families

The majority of methods for constructing pairing-friendly elliptic curves are based on representing the curve parameters as polynomial families. There are three such types, namely complete, complete with variable discriminant and sparse families. In this paper, we present a method for constructing s...

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Main Authors: Fotiadis Georgios, Konstantinou Elisavet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Mathematical Cryptology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jmc-2017-0024
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Summary:The majority of methods for constructing pairing-friendly elliptic curves are based on representing the curve parameters as polynomial families. There are three such types, namely complete, complete with variable discriminant and sparse families. In this paper, we present a method for constructing sparse families and produce examples of this type that have not previously appeared in the literature, for various embedding degrees. We provide numerical examples obtained by these sparse families, considering for the first time the effect of the recent progress on the tower number field sieve (TNFS) method for solving the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) in finite field extensions of composite degree.
ISSN:1862-2976
1862-2984