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Fast and Frobenius: Rational Isogeny Evaluation over Finite Fields
Gustavo Banegas, Valerie Gilchrist, Anaëlle Le Dévéhat, Benjamin Smith
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Consider the problem of efficiently evaluating isogenies ϕ: E →E/H of elliptic curves over a finite field 𝔽_q, where the kernel H = ⟨G⟩ is a cyclic group of odd (prime) order: given E, G, and a point (or several points) P on E, we want to compute ϕ(P). This problem is at the heart of efficient implementations of group-action- and isogeny-based post-quantum cryptosystems such as CSIDH. Algorithms based on V{\'e}lu's formulae give an efficient solution to this problem when the kernel generator G is defined over 𝔽_q. However, for general isogenies, G is only defined over some extension 𝔽_(qᵏ), even though ⟨G⟩ as a whole (and thus ϕ) is defined over the base field 𝔽_q; and the performance of V{\'e}lu-style algorithms degrades rapidly as k grows. In this article we revisit the isogeny-evaluation problem with a special focus on the case where 1 ≤k ≤12. We improve V{\'e}lu-style isogeny evaluation for many cases where k = 1 using special addition chains, and combine this with the action of Galois to give greater improvements when k > 1.
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