International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 31 July 2025

Senegue Gomez Nyamsi, Emmanuel Fouotsa, Calvin Tcheka
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The final exponentiation is a crucial step in pairing computations, ensuring cor- rectness and uniqueness of results in pairing-based cryptographic protocols. In this work, we propose an efficient method for computing the hard part of the final exponentiation on BW10-511, BW14-351 and BLS12 curves at 128 bits security level. Our approach reduces the computation cost by optimizing the exponenti- ation sequence and minimizing the number of required multiplications through an improved addition chain strategy. The computation cost of our method for the final exponentiation on these curves is about 25.6%, 33.2% and 10% faster than the previously fastest result on BW10-511, BW14-351 and BLS12 curves respectively. The correctness of our formulas has been verified by a Magma code.
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