Scaling Security of Elliptic Curves with Fast Pairing Using Efficient Endomorphisms

Abstract

Cryptosystems using pairing computation on elliptic curves have various applications including ID-based encryption ([9], [29], [30] etc.). Scott [33] proposed a scaling method of security by a change of the embedding degree k. On the other hand, he also presented an efficient pairing computation method on an ordinary (non-supersingular) elliptic curve over a large prime field p ([34]). In this paper, we present an implementation method of the pairing computation with both of the security scaling in [33] and the efficiency in [34]. First, we will investigate the mathematical nature of the set of the paremeter r (the order of cyclic group used) so as to support many k's. Then, based on it, we will suggest some modification to the algorithm of Scott in [34] to achieve flexible scalability of security level.