Paper 2021/676 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2021/676 ↗

Extending the GLS endomorphism to speed up GHS Weil descent using Magma

Abstract

Let \(q~=~2^n\), and let \(\mathcal{E} / \mathbb{F}_{q^{\ell}}\) be a generalized Galbraith--Lin--Scott (GLS) binary curve, with $\ell \ge 2$ and \((\ell, n) = 1\). We show that the GLS endomorphism on \(\mathcal{E} / \mathbb{F}_{q^{\ell}}\) induces an efficient endomorphism on the Jacobian \(\mathrm{Jac}_\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{F}_q)\) of the genus-\(g\) hyperelliptic curve \(\mathcal{H}\) corresponding to the image of the GHS Weil-descent attack applied to \(\mathcal{E} / \mathbb{F}_{q^\ell}\), and that this endomorphism yields a factor-$n$ speedup when using standard index-calculus procedures for solving the Discrete Logarithm Problem (DLP) on \(\mathrm{Jac}_\mathcal{H}(\mathbb{F}_q)\). Our analysis is backed up by the explicit computation of a discrete logarithm defined on a prime-order subgroup of a GLS elliptic curve over the field $\mathbb{F}_{2^{5\cdot 31}}$. A Magma implementation of our algorithm finds the aforementioned discrete logarithm in about $1,035$ CPU-days.