Concrete quantum cryptanalysis of binary elliptic curves

Gustavo Banegas; Daniel J.  Bernstein; Iggy van Hoof; Tanja Lange

Paper 2020/1296 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2020/1296 ↗

Concrete quantum cryptanalysis of binary elliptic curves

Gustavo Banegas

Daniel J. Bernstein

Iggy van Hoof

Tanja Lange

Abstract

This paper analyzes and optimizes quantum circuits for computing discrete logarithms on binary elliptic curves, including reversible circuits for fixed-base-point scalar multiplication and the full stack of relevant subroutines. The main optimization target is the size of the quantum computer, i.e., the number of logical qubits required, as this appears to be the main obstacle to implementing Shor's polynomial-time discrete-logarithm algorithm. The secondary optimization target is the number of logical Toffoli gates. For an elliptic curve over a field of 2^n elements, this paper reduces the number of qubits to 7n+[log_2(n)]+9. At the same time this paper reduces the number of Toffoli gates to 48n^3+8n^(log_2(3)+1)+352n^2 log_2(n)+512n^2+O(n^(log_2(3))) with double-and-add scalar multiplication, and a logarithmic factor smaller with fixed-window scalar multiplication. The number of CNOT gates is also O(n^3). Exact gate counts are given for various sizes of elliptic curves currently used for cryptography.

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Available format(s): PDF
Category: Implementation
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2020-10-19: last updated; 2020-10-19: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2020/1296
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1296,
      author = {Gustavo Banegas and Daniel J.  Bernstein and Iggy van Hoof and Tanja Lange},
      title = {Concrete quantum cryptanalysis of binary elliptic curves},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/1296},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1296}
}