Paper 2015/659 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2015/659 ↗
Diversity and Transparency for ECC
Abstract
Generating and standardizing elliptic curves to use them in a cryptographic context is a hard task. In this note, we don’t make an explicit proposal for an elliptic curve, but we deal with the following issues. Security: We give a list of criteria that should be satisfied by a secure elliptic curve. Although a few of these criteria are incompatible, we detail what we think are the best choices for optimal security. Transparency: We sketch a way to generate a curve in a fully transparent way so that it can be trusted and not suspected to belong to a (not publicly known to be) vulnerable class. In particular, since the computational cost of verifying the output of such a process may be quite high, we sketch out the format of a certificate that eases the computations. We think that this format might deserve being standardized.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2015-07-02: last updated
- 2015-07-02: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2015/659
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/659,
author = {Jean-Pierre Flori and Jérôme Plût and Jean-René Reinhard and Martin Ekerå},
title = {Diversity and Transparency for ECC},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/659},
year = {2015},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/659}
}