Abstract

Implementation of Boneh - Lynn - Shacham short digital signature scheme using Weil bilinear pairing based on supersingular elliptic curves

Nhu-Quynh Luc*, Quang-Trung Do, Manh-Hung Le
Academy of Cryptography Techniques
Received 4 May 2022; accepted 14 July 2022
 
Abstract:
One option for a digital signature solution for devices with low memory and low bandwidth transmission over channels uses a short digital signature scheme based on Weil bilinear pairing aimed at short processing times, fast computation, and convenient deployment on applications. The computational technique of non-degenerate bilinear pairings uses supersingular elliptic curves over a finite field Fpl (where is a sufficiently large prime number) and has the advantage of being able to avoid Weil-descent, Menezes-Okamoto-Vanstone (MOV) attacks, and attacks by the Number Field Sieve algorithm. Compared to Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) digital signature schemes, generating a digital signature for a Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) scheme using Weil bilinear pairing on a supersingular elliptic curve is simple. In this study, the authors replace non-degenerate bilinear pairing calculations on a supersingular elliptic curve with a Weil pairing with PεE(Fp)QεE(Fp1) and a higher security multiplier α=12 in the BLS short digital signature scheme. The execution time of the BLS short digital signature program showed improvement compared to the commercial ECDSA digital signature scheme.
Keywords: digital signature, ECDSA, elliptic curve cryptography, tate pairing, Weil pairing.
Classification number: 1.2