Title

A new method for decomposition in the Jacobian of small genus hyperelliptic curves

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Abstract

Decomposing a divisor over a suitable factor basis in the Jacobian of a hyperelliptic curve is a crucial step in an index calculus algorithm for the discrete log problem in the Jacobian. For small genus curves, in the year 2000, Gaudry had proposed a suitable factor basis and a decomposition method. In this work, we provide a new method for decomposition over the same factor basis. The advantage of the new method is that it admits a sieving technique which removes smoothness checking of polynomials required in Gaudry’s method. Also, the total number of additions in the Jacobian required by the new method is less than that required by Gaudry’s method. The new method itself is quite simple and we present some example decompositions and timing results of our implementation of the method using Magma.

First Page

601

Last Page

616

DOI

10.1007/s10623-016-0184-9

Publication Date

3-1-2017

Comments

Open Access, Green

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