Explicit Formulas for Real Hyperelliptic Curves of Genus
2 in Affine Representation
Author
Stefan Erickson and Michael J. Jacobson and Ning Shang and Shuo Shen and Andreas Stein
Abstract
In this paper, we present for the first time efficient explicit formulas for arithmetic in the degree 0 divisor class group of a real hyperelliptic curve. Hereby, we consider real hyperelliptic curves of genus 2 given in affine coordinates for which the underlying finite field has characteristic > 3. These formulas are much faster than the optimized generic
algorithms for real hyperelliptic curves and the cryptographic protocols
in the real setting perform almost as well as those in the imaginary case.
We provide the idea for the improvements and the correctness together with a comprehensive analysis of the number of field operations. Finally, we perform a direct comparison of cryptographic protocols using explicit formulas for real hyperelliptic curves with the corresponding protocols presented in the imaginary model.
Key alpha
DBLP:conf/waifi/EricksonJSSS07
Publisher
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Publication Date
2007-01-01
Issn
0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
Keywords
hyperelliptic curve, reduced divisor, infrastructure and dis-
tance, Cantor’s algorithm, explicit formulas, efficient implementation,
cryptographic key exchange
Subject
Application of low genus curves in cryptography.