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Twisted Hessian Isogenies

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Author(s)

Dustin Moody, Thinh H. Dang, Fouazou Lontouo Perez, Emmanuel Fouotsa

Abstract

Elliptic curves are typically defined by Weierstrass equations. Given a kernel, the well-known V Velu's formula shows how to explicitly write down an isogeny between Weierstrass curves. However, it is not clear how to do the same on other forms of elliptic curves without isomorphisms mapping to and from the Weierstrass form. Previous papers have shown some isogeny formulas for (twisted) Edwards, Huff, and Montgomery forms of elliptic curves. Continuing this line of work, this paper derives an explicit formula for isogenies between elliptic curves in (twisted) Hessian form.
Citation
Journal of Mathematical Cryptography

Keywords

elliptic curves, isogenies, hessian, cryptography

Citation

Moody, D. , Dang, T. , , F. and Fouotsa, E. (2021), Twisted Hessian Isogenies, Journal of Mathematical Cryptography, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=929415 (Accessed September 23, 2023)
Created January 31, 2021, Updated March 1, 2021