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### Paper: Analyzing the Galbraith-Lin-Scott Point Multiplication Method for Elliptic Curves over Binary Fields

Authors: Darrel Hankerson Koray Karabina Alfred Menezes URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/334 Search ePrint Search Google Galbraith, Lin and Scott recently constructed efficiently-computable endomorphisms for a large family of elliptic curves defined over F_{q^2} and showed, in the case where q is prime, that the Gallant-Lambert-Vanstone point multiplication method for these curves is significantly faster than point multiplication for general elliptic curves over prime fields. In this paper, we investigate the potential benefits of using Galbraith-Lin-Scott elliptic curves in the case where q is a power of 2. The analysis differs from the q prime case because of several factors, including the availability of the point halving strategy for elliptic curves over binary fields. Our analysis and implementations show that Galbraith-Lin-Scott offers significant acceleration for curves over binary fields, in both doubling- and halving-based approaches. Experimentally, the acceleration surpasses that reported for prime fields (for the platform in common), a somewhat counterintuitive result given the relative costs of point addition and doubling in each case.
##### BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2008-18011,
title={Analyzing the Galbraith-Lin-Scott Point Multiplication Method for Elliptic Curves over Binary Fields},
booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
keywords={public-key cryptography / elliptic curve, point multiplication, GLV method, isogeny},
url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/334},
note={ hankedr@auburn.edu 14092 received 1 Aug 2008},
author={Darrel Hankerson and Koray Karabina and Alfred Menezes},
year=2008
}