Elliptic Curves with Low Embedding Degree

Florian Luca; Igor E.  Shparlinski

Paper 2005/363

Elliptic Curves with Low Embedding Degree

Florian Luca and Igor E. Shparlinski

Abstract

Motivated by the needs of the {\it pairing based cryptography\/}, Miyaji, Nakabayashi and Takano have suggested a construction of so-called MNT elliptic curves with low embedding degree. We give some heuristic arguments which suggest that there are only about $z^{1 / 2 + o (1)}$ of MNT curves with complex multiplication discriminant up to $z$ . We also show that there are very few finite fields over which elliptic curves with small embedding degree and small complex multiplication discriminant may exist (regardless of the way they are constructed).

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Public-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords: elliptic curves embedding degree pairing
Contact author(s): igor @ ics mq edu au
History: 2005-10-09: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2005/363
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/363,
      author = {Florian Luca and Igor E.  Shparlinski},
      title = {Elliptic Curves with Low Embedding Degree},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2005/363},
      year = {2005},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/363}
}