Paper 2009/466 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2009/466 ↗

The Certicom Challenges ECC2-X

Daniel V. Bailey
Brian Baldwin
Lejla Batina
Daniel J. Bernstein
Peter Birkner
Joppe W. Bos
Gauthier van Damme
Giacomo de Meulenaer
Junfeng Fan
Tim Güneysu
Frank Gurkaynak
Thorsten Kleinjung
Tanja Lange
Nele Mentens
Christof Paar
Francesco Regazzoni
Peter Schwabe
Leif Uhsadel
Abstract

To encourage research on the hardness of the elliptic-curve discrete-logarithm problem (ECDLP) Certicom has published a series of challenge curves and DLPs. This paper analyzes the costs of breaking the Certicom challenges over the binary fields $\F_{2^{131}}$ and $\F_{2^{163}}$ on a variety of platforms. We describe details of the choice of step function and distinguished points for the Koblitz and non-Koblitz curves. In contrast to the implementations for the previous Certicom challenges we do not restrict ourselves to software and conventional PCs, but branch out to cover the majority of available platforms such as various ASICs, FPGAs, CPUs and the Cell Broadband Engine. For the field arithmetic we investigate polynomial and normal basis arithmetic for these specific fields; in particular for the challenges on Koblitz curves normal bases become more attractive on ASICs and FPGAs.

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Public-key cryptography
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Preprint.
History
2009-09-26: last updated
2009-09-26: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2009/466
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2009/466,
      author = {Daniel V.  Bailey and Brian Baldwin and Lejla Batina and Daniel J.  Bernstein and Peter Birkner and Joppe W.  Bos and Gauthier van Damme and Giacomo de Meulenaer and Junfeng Fan and Tim Güneysu and Frank Gurkaynak and Thorsten Kleinjung and Tanja Lange and Nele Mentens and Christof Paar and Francesco Regazzoni and Peter Schwabe and Leif Uhsadel},
      title = {The Certicom Challenges ECC2-X},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2009/466},
      year = {2009},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/466}
}
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