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Comments on "Provably Sublinear Point Multiplication on Koblitz Curves and Its Hardware Implementation”
April 2012 (vol. 61 no. 4)
pp. 591-592
Mun-Kyu Lee, Inha University , Incheon
In 2008, Dimitrov et al. proposed a point multiplication algorithm on Koblitz curves using multiple-base expansions. They claimed that their algorithm is the first provably sublinear point multiplication algorithm on Koblitz curves. In this paper, we show that the well-known \tau-adic NAF method is already sublinear and also guarantees a better average performance.

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Index Terms:
Elliptic curve cryptography, Koblitz curves, sublinearity.
Citation:
Mun-Kyu Lee, "Comments on "Provably Sublinear Point Multiplication on Koblitz Curves and Its Hardware Implementation”," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 591-592, April 2012, doi:10.1109/TC.2011.109
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