Supersingular isogeny graphs and endomorphism rings: reductions and solutions

Kirsten Eisenträger, Sean Hallgren, Kristin Lauter, Travis Morrison, Christophe Petit

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Abstract

In this paper, we study several related computational problems for supersingular elliptic curves, their isogeny graphs, and their endomorphism rings. We prove reductions between the problem of path finding in the -isogeny graph, computing maximal orders isomorphic to the endomorphism ring of a supersingular elliptic curve, and computing the endomorphism ring itself. We also give constructive versions of Deuring’s correspondence, which associates to a maximal order in a certain quaternion algebra an isomorphism class of supersingular elliptic curves. The reductions are based on heuristics regarding the distribution of norms of elements in quaternion algebras. We show that conjugacy classes of maximal orders have a representative of polynomial size, and we define a way to represent endomorphism ring generators in a way that allows for efficient evaluation at points on the curve. We relate these problems to the security of the Charles-Goren-Lauter hash function. We provide a collision attack for special but natural parameters of the hash function and prove that for general parameters its preimage and collision resistance are also equivalent to the endomorphism ring computation problem.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2018 - 37th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2018 Proceedings
EditorsJesper Buus Nielsen, Vincent Rijmen
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages329-368
Number of pages40
ISBN (Print)9783319783710
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event37th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2018 - Tel Aviv, Israel
Duration: Apr 29 2018May 3 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10822 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other37th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2018
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityTel Aviv
Period4/29/185/3/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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