IACR News item: 11 November 2024
Lorenz Panny, Christophe Petit, Miha Stopar
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We construct and implement an efficient post-quantum commutative cryptographic group action based on combining the SCALLOP framework for group actions from isogenies of oriented elliptic curves on one hand with the recent Clapoti method for polynomial-time evaluation of the CM group action on elliptic curves on the other.
We take advantage of the very attractive performance of $(2^e, 2^e)$-isogenies between products of elliptic curves in the theta coordinate system.
To successfully apply Clapoti in dimension $2$, it is required to resolve a particular quadratic diophantine norm equation, for which we employ a slight variant of the KLPT algorithm.
Our work marks the first practical instantiation of the CM group action for which both the setup as well as the online phase can be computed in (heuristic) polynomial time.
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