Title
On the near prime-order MNT curves.
Abstract
In their seminar paper, Miyaji, Nakabayashi and Takano introduced the first method to construct families of prime-order elliptic curves with small embedding degrees, namely \(k = 3, 4\), and 6. These curves, so-called MNT curves, were then extended by Scott and Barreto, and also Galbraith, McKee and Valença to near prime-order curves with the same embedding degrees. In this paper, we extend the method of Scott and Barreto to introduce an explicit and simple algorithm that is able to generate all families of MNT curves with any given cofactor. Furthermore, we analyze the number of potential families of these curves that could be obtained for a given embedding degree k and a cofactor h. We then discuss the generalized Pell equations that allow us to construct particular curves. Finally, we provide statistics of the near prime-order MNT curves.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s00200-018-0363-1
Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Pairing friendly elliptic curve,Near prime-order MNT curves,Pell’s equation,11T71
Journal
abs/1806.02536
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0938-1279
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Duc-Phong Le1297.06
Nadia El Mrabet25112.82
Safia Haloui331.06
Chik How Tan449954.60