International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

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Jonathan Komada Eriksen

Publications

Year
Venue
Title
2024
EUROCRYPT
AprèsSQI: Extra Fast Verification for SQIsign Using Extension-Field Signing
We optimise the verification of the SQIsign signature scheme. By using field extensions in the signing procedure, we are able to significantly increase the amount of available rational 2-power torsion in verification, which achieves a significant speed-up. This, moreover, allows several other speed-ups on the level of curve arithmetic. We show that the synergy between these high-level and low-level improvements gives significant improvements, making verification 2.07 times faster, or up to 3.41 times when using size-speed trade-offs, compared to the state of the art, without majorly degrading the performance of signing.
2024
CIC
Computing Orientations from the Endomorphism Ring of Supersingular Curves and Applications
Jonathan Komada Eriksen Antonin Leroux
<p> This work introduces several algorithms related to the computation of orientations in endomorphism rings of supersingular elliptic curves. This problem is at the heart of several results regarding the security of oriented-curves in isogeny-based cryptography. Under the Deuring correspondence, it can be expressed purely in terms of quaternion and boils down to representing integers by ternary quadratic forms. Our main contribution is to show that there exist efficient algorithms to solve this problem for quadratic orders of discriminant $n$ up to $O(p^{4/3})$. Our approach improves upon previous results by increasing this bound from $O(p)$ to $O(p^{4/3})$ and removing some heuristics. We introduce several variants of our new algorithm and provide a careful analysis of their asymptotic running time (without heuristic when it is possible). The best proven asymptotic complexity of one of our variants is $O(n^{3/4}/p)$ in average. The best heuristic variant has a complexity of $O(p^{1/3})$ for big enough $n$. We then introduce several results regarding the computation of ideals between oriented orders. The first application of this is a simplification of the known reduction from vectorization to computing the endomorphism ring, removing the assumption on the factorization of the discriminant. As a second application, we relate the problem of computing fixed-degree isogenies between supersingular curves to the problem of computing orientations in endomorphism rings, and we show that for a large range of degree $d$, our new algorithms improve on the state-of-the-art, and in important special cases, the range of degree $d$ for which there exist a polynomial-time algorithm is increased. In the most special case we consider, when both curves are oriented by a small degree endomorphism, we show heuristically that our techniques allow the computation of isogenies of any degree, assuming they exist. </p>
2024
CIC
Finding Practical Parameters for Isogeny-based Cryptography
<p> Isogeny-based schemes often come with special requirements on the field of definition of the involved elliptic curves. For instance, the efficiency of SQIsign, a promising candidate in the NIST signature standardisation process, requires a large power of two and a large smooth integer $T$ to divide $p^2-1$ for its prime parameter $p$. We present two new methods that combine previous techniques for finding suitable primes: sieve-and-boost and XGCD-and-boost. We use these methods to find primes for the NIST submission of SQIsign. Furthermore, we show that our methods are flexible and can be adapted to find suitable parameters for other isogeny-based schemes such as AprèsSQI or POKE. For all three schemes, the parameters we present offer the best performance among all parameters proposed in the literature. </p>
2023
ASIACRYPT
Cryptographic Smooth Neighbors
We revisit the problem of finding two consecutive $B$-smooth integers by giving an optimised implementation of the Conrey-Holm\-strom-McLaughlin ``smooth neighbors'' algorithm. While this algorithm is not guaranteed to return the complete set of $B$-smooth neighbors, in practice it returns a very close approximation to the complete set but does so in a tiny fraction of the time of its exhaustive counterparts. We exploit this algorithm to find record-sized solutions to the pure twin smooth problem, and subsequently to produce instances of cryptographic parameters whose corresponding isogeny degrees are significantly smoother than prior works. Our methods seem well-suited to finding parameters for the SQISign signature scheme, especially for instantiations looking to minimize the cost of signature generation. We give a number of examples, among which are the first parameter sets geared towards efficient SQISign instantiations at NIST's security levels III and V.