The arithmetic of characteristic 2 Kummer surfaces and of elliptic Kummer lines

  • Authors:
  • Pierrick Gaudry;David Lubicz

  • Affiliations:
  • LORIA, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France;CÉLAR, BP 7419, F-35174 Bruz, France and IRMAR, Universté de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, F-35042 Rennes, France

  • Venue:
  • Finite Fields and Their Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is a description of a model of Kummer surfaces in characteristic 2, together with the associated formulas for the pseudo-group law. Since the classical model has bad reduction, a renormalization of the parameters is required, that can be justified using the theory of algebraic theta functions. The formulas that are obtained are very efficient and may be useful in cryptographic applications. We also show that applying the same strategy to elliptic curves gives Montgomery-like formulas in odd characteristic that are faster than the classical ones, and we recover already known formulas by Stam in characteristic 2.