Paper 2004/055 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2004/055 ↗

Redundant Trinomials for Finite Fields of Characteristic $2$

Christophe Doche
Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new way to represent elements of a finite field of characteristic $2$. We describe a new type of polynomial basis, called {\it redundant trinomial basis} and discuss how to implement it efficiently. Redundant trinomial bases are well suited to build $\mathbb{F}_{2^n}$ when no irreducible trinomial of degree $n$ exists. Tests with {\tt NTL} show that improvements for squaring and exponentiation are respectively up to $45$\% and $25$\%. More attention is given to relevant extension degrees for doing elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography. For this range, a scalar multiplication can be speeded up by a factor up to $15$\%.

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History
2004-03-05: last updated
2004-02-23: published
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https://ia.cr/2004/055
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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@misc{cryptoeprint:2004/055,
      author = {Christophe Doche},
      title = {Redundant Trinomials for Finite Fields of Characteristic $2$},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2004/055},
      year = {2004},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/055}
}
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