Optimal Extension Field Inversion in the Frequency Domain

  • Authors:
  • Selçuk Baktır;Berk Sunar

  • Affiliations:
  • WPI, Cryptography & Information Security Laboratory, Worcester, USA;WPI, Cryptography & Information Security Laboratory, Worcester, USA

  • Venue:
  • WAIFI '08 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Arithmetic of Finite Fields
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an adaptation of the Itoh-Tsujii algorithmto the frequency domain for efficient inversion in a class of Optimal Extension Fields. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time a frequency domain finite field inversion algorithm is proposed for elliptic curve cryptography. We believe the proposed algorithm would be well suited especially for efficient low-power hardware implementation of elliptic curve cryptography using affine coordinates in constrained small devices such as smart cards and wireless sensor network nodes.