Improving the Polynomial time Precomputation of Frobenius Representation Discrete Logarithm Algorithms - Simplified Setting for Small Characteristic Finite Fields

Antoine Joux; Cécile Pierrot

Paper 2014/924

Improving the Polynomial time Precomputation of Frobenius Representation Discrete Logarithm Algorithms - Simplified Setting for Small Characteristic Finite Fields

Antoine Joux and Cécile Pierrot

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit the recent small characteristic discrete logarithm algorithms. We show that a simplified description of the algorithm, together with some additional ideas, permits to obtain an improved complexity for the polynomial time precomputation that arises during the discrete logarithm computation. With our new improvements, this is reduced to O(q^6), where q is the cardinality of the basefield we are considering. This should be compared to the best currently documented complexity for this part, namely O(q^7). With our simplified setting, the complexity of the precomputation in the general case becomes similar to the complexity known for Kummer (or twisted Kummer) extensions.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Public-key cryptography
Publication info: Published by the IACR in ASIACRYPT 2014
Keywords: discrete logarithm problem finite fields
Contact author(s): Cecile Pierrot @ lip6 fr
History: 2014-11-11: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2014/924
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/924,
      author = {Antoine Joux and Cécile Pierrot},
      title = {Improving the Polynomial time Precomputation of Frobenius Representation Discrete Logarithm Algorithms - Simplified Setting for Small Characteristic Finite Fields},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/924},
      year = {2014},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/924}
}