Affine pairings on ARM

  • Authors:
  • Tolga Acar;Kristin Lauter;Michael Naehrig;Daniel Shumow

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • Pairing'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We report on relative performance numbers for affine and projective pairings on a dual-core Cortex A9 ARM processor. Using a fast inversion in the base field and doing inversion in extension fields by using the norm map to reduce to inversions in smaller fields, we find a very low ratio of inversion-to-multiplication costs. In our implementation, this favors using affine coordinates, even for the current 128-bit minimum security level specified by NIST. We use Barreto-Naehrig (BN) curves and report on the performance of an optimal ate pairing for curves covering security levels between 128 and 192 bits. We compare with other reported performance numbers for pairing computation on ARM CPUs.