Double-Exponentiation in Factor-4 Groups and Its Applications

  • Authors:
  • Koray Karabina

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1

  • Venue:
  • Cryptography and Coding '09 Proceedings of the 12th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In previous work we showed how to compress certain prime-order subgroups of the cyclotomic subgroups of orders 22m + 1 of the multiplicative groups of ${\mathbb{F}}_{2^{4m}}^*$ by a factor of 4. We also showed that single-exponentiation can be efficiently performed using compressed representations. In this paper we show that double-exponentiation can be efficiently performed using factor-4 compressed representation of elements. In addition to giving a considerable speed up to the previously known fastest single-exponentiation algorithm for general bases, double-exponentiation can be used to adapt our compression technique to ElGamal type signature schemes.