Paper 2022/277

Security Analysis of Elliptic Curves over Sextic Extension of Small Prime Fields

Robin Salen, Toposware, Inc.
Vijaykumar Singh, Toposware, Inc.
Vladimir Soukharev, Toposware, Inc.
Abstract

In this report we investigate how to generate secure elliptic curves over sextic extension of prime fields of size roughly 64 bits to achieve 128-bit security. In particular, we present one of such curves over a 64-bit prime field, which we named Cheetah, and provide its security parameter. This curve is particularly well-suited for zero-knowledge applications such as FRI-based STARK proving systems, as its base prime field has the property of having a large two-adicity, necessary for FFT-related operations and at the same time it is used for elliptic curve-based signatures. We also provide a prototype implementation of this curve in Rust, featuring constant-time arithmetic and no use of the Rust standard library for WebAssembly support.

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Preprint.
Keywords
elliptic curves digital signatures zero-knowledge proofs stark blockchain field extension
Contact author(s)
research @ toposware com
History
2022-11-08: last of 2 revisions
2022-03-02: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/277
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/277,
      author = {Robin Salen and Vijaykumar Singh and Vladimir Soukharev},
      title = {Security Analysis of Elliptic Curves over Sextic Extension of Small Prime Fields},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/277},
      year = {2022},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/277}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/277}
}
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