Optimal strategies for CSIDH

Jesús-Javier Chi-Domínguez; Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez

Paper 2020/417

Optimal strategies for CSIDH

Jesús-Javier Chi-Domínguez and Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez

Abstract

Since its proposal in Asiacrypt 2018, the commutative isogeny-based key exchange protocol (CSIDH) has spurred considerable attention to improving its performance and re-evaluating its classical and quantum security guarantees. In this paper we discuss how the optimal strategies employed by the Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman (SIDH) key agreement protocol can be naturally extended to CSIDH. Furthermore, we report a software library that achieves moderate but noticeable performance speedups when compared against state-of-the-art implementations of CSIDH-512, which is the most popular CSIDH instantiation. We also report an estimated number of field operations for larger instantiations of this protocol, namely, CSIDH-1024 and CSIDH-1792.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Public-key cryptography
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords: CSIDH isogeny-based cryptography post-quantum cryptography key exchange
Contact author(s): jesus chidominguez @ tuni fi
francisco @ cs cinvestav mx
History: 2020-08-05: last of 3 revisions; 2020-04-13: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2020/417
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/417,
      author = {Jesús-Javier Chi-Domínguez and Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez},
      title = {Optimal strategies for {CSIDH}},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/417},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/417}
}