DocumentCode
800433
Title
A new addition formula for elliptic curves over GF(2n)
Author
Al-Daoud, Essame ; Mahmod, Ramlan ; Rushdan, Mohammad ; Kilicman, Adem
Author_Institution
Univ. Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Volume
51
Issue
8
fYear
2002
fDate
8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
972
Lastpage
975
Abstract
We propose an addition formula in projective coordinates for elliptic curves over GF(2n). The new formula speeds up the elliptic curve scalar multiplication by reducing the number of field multiplications. This was achieved by rewriting the elliptic curve addition formula. The complexity analysis shows that the new addition formula speeds up the addition in projective coordinates by about 10-2 percent, which leads to enhanced scalar multiplication methods for random and Koblitz curves.
Keywords
computational complexity; public key cryptography; Koblitz curves; addition formula; complexity analysis; elliptic curves; field multiplications; projective coordinates; random curves; scalar multiplication; Arithmetic; Differential equations; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Galois fields; Licenses; Security;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9340
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TC.2002.1024743
Filename
1024743
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