Paper 2019/166 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2019/166 ↗

Verifiable Delay Functions from Supersingular Isogenies and Pairings

Luca De Feo
Simon Masson
Christophe Petit
Antonio Sanso
Abstract

We present two new Verifiable Delay Functions (VDF) based on assumptions from elliptic curve cryptography. We discuss both the advantages and some drawbacks of our constructions, we study their security and we demonstrate their practicality with a proof-of-concept implementation.

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Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2020-07-10: last updated
2019-02-20: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2019/166
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2019/166,
      author = {Luca De Feo and Simon Masson and Christophe Petit and Antonio Sanso},
      title = {Verifiable Delay Functions from Supersingular Isogenies and Pairings},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2019/166},
      year = {2019},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/166}
}
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