Integer Decomposition for Fast Scalar Multiplication on Elliptic Curves

  • Authors:
  • Dongryeol Kim;Seongan Lim

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SAC '02 Revised Papers from the 9th Annual International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Since Miller and Koblitz applied elliptic curves to cryptographic system in 1985[3,6], a lot of researchers have been interested in this field and various speedup techniques for the scalar multiplication have been developed. Recently, Gallant et al. published a method that accelerates the scalar multiplication and is applicable to a larger class of curves[4]. In the process of their method, they assumed the existence of a special pair of two short linearly independent vectors. Once a pair of such vectors exists, their decomposition method improves the efficiency of the scalar multiplication roughly about 50%. In this paper, we state and prove a necessary condition for the existence of a pair of desired vectors and we also present an algorithm to find them.