Paper 2021/1152
Bandersnatch: a fast elliptic curve built over the BLS12-381 scalar field
Simon Masson, Antonio Sanso, and Zhenfei Zhang
Abstract
In this short note, we introduce Bandersnatch, a new elliptic curve built over the BLS12-381 scalar field. The curve is equipped with an efficient endomorphism, allowing a fast scalar multiplication algorithm. Our benchmark shows that the multiplication is 42% faster, compared to another curve, called Jubjub, having similar properties. Nonetheless, Bandersnatch does not provide any performance improvement for either rank 1 constraint systems (R1CS) or multi scalar multiplications, compared to the Jubjub curve.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Contact author(s)
- simon @ heliax dev
- History
- 2021-10-22: revised
- 2021-09-14: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2021/1152
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1152, author = {Simon Masson and Antonio Sanso and Zhenfei Zhang}, title = {Bandersnatch: a fast elliptic curve built over the {BLS12}-381 scalar field}, howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/1152}, year = {2021}, note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1152}}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1152} }