A Study on the Performance of Secure Elliptic Curves for Cryptographic Purposes

  1. Raúl Durán Díaz 1
  2. Victor Gayoso Martíınez 2
  3. Luis Hernández Encinas 2
  4. Martín Muñoz, Agustin 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

  2. 2 Centro de Tecnologías Físicas y de la Información Leonardo Torres Quevedo
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    Centro de Tecnologías Físicas y de la Información Leonardo Torres Quevedo

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/00zsy6110

Buch:
International Joint Conference SOCO’16-CISIS’16-ICEUTE’16: San Sebastián, Spain, October 19th-21st, 2016 Proceedings
  1. Manuel Graña (coord.)
  2. José Manuel López-Guede (coord.)
  3. Oier Etxaniz (coord.)
  4. Álvaro Herrero (coord.)
  5. Héctor Quintián (coord.)
  6. Emilio Corchado (coord.)

Verlag: Springer Suiza

ISBN: 978-3-319-47364-2 3-319-47364-6 978-3-319-47363-5 3-319-47363-8

Datum der Publikation: 2017

Seiten: 658-667

Kongress: International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (9. 2016. San Sebastián)

Art: Konferenz-Beitrag

Zusammenfassung

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a branch of public-key cryptography based on the arithmetic of elliptic curves. In the short life of ECC, most standards have proposed curves defined over prime finite fields satisfying the curve equation in the short Weierstrass form. However, some researchers have started to propose as a more secure alternative the use of Edwards and Montgomery elliptic curves, which could have an impact in current ECC deployments. This contribution evaluates the performance of the three types of elliptic curves using some of the examples provided by the initiative SafeCurves and a Java implementation developed by the authors, which allows us to offer some conclusions about this topic.