Fast Key Exchange with Elliptic Curve Systems

  • Authors:
  • Richard Schroeppel;Hilarie Orman;Sean W. O'Malley;Oliver Spatscheck

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '95 Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm can be implemented using the group of points on an elliptic curve over the field F2n. A software version of this using n = 155 can be optimized to achieve computation rates that are slightly faster than non-elliptic curve versions with a similar level of security. The fast computation of reciprocals in F2n is the key to the highly efficient implementation described here.