Tutte Colloquium - Michael Naehrig

Title: Finding twin smooth integers for isogeny-based cryptography

Abstract:

Efficient and secure instantiations of cryptographic protocols require careful parameter selection. For the isogeny-based cryptographic protocol B-SIDH, a variant of the Supersingular-Isogeny Diffie Hellman (SIDH) key exchange, one needs to find two consecutive B-smooth integers of cryptographic size such that their sum is prime. The smaller the smoothness bound B is, the more efficient the protocol becomes. This talk discusses a sieving algorithm to find such twin smooth integers that uses solutions to the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem.