Paper 2015/801 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2015/801 ↗
Scalar Blinding on Elliptic Curves based on Primes with Special Structure
Abstract
This paper shows how scalar blinding can provide protection against side channel attacks when performing elliptic curve operations with modest cost, even if the characteristic of the field has a sparse representation. This may indicate that, for hardware implementations, random primes might not have as large of an advantage over special primes as previously claimed.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2015-08-11: last updated
- 2015-08-10: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2015/801
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/801,
author = {Scott Fluhrer},
title = {Scalar Blinding on Elliptic Curves based on Primes with Special Structure},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/801},
year = {2015},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/801}
}