International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 14 March 2025

Krijn Reijnders
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This short note explains how the Tate pairing can be used to efficiently sample torsion points with precise requirements, and other applications. These applications are most clearly explained on Montgomery curves, using the Tate pairing of degree 2, but hold more generally for any degree or abelian variety, or even generalized Tate pairings. This note is explanatory in nature; it does not contain new results, but aims to provide a clear and concise explanation of results in the literature that are somewhat hidden, yet are extremely useful in practical isogeny-based cryptography.
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