International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 10 August 2015

Scott Fluhrer
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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.

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