International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

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Lukas Kölsch

Publications

Year
Venue
Title
2019
EUROCRYPT
XOR-Counts and Lightweight Multiplication with Fixed Elements in Binary Finite Fields
Lukas Kölsch
XOR-metrics measure the efficiency of certain arithmetic operations in binary finite fields. We prove some new results about two different XOR-metrics that have been used in the past. In particular, we disprove a conjecture from [10]. We consider implementations of multiplication with one fixed element in a binary finite field. Here we achieve a complete characterization of all elements whose multiplication matrix can be implemented using exactly 2 XOR-operations, confirming a conjecture from [2]. Further, we provide new results and examples in more general cases, showing that significant improvements in implementations are possible.