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Generating pairing-friendly parameters for the CM construction of genus 2 curves over prime fields

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We present two contributions in this paper. First, we give a quantitative analysis of the scarcity of pairing-friendly genus 2 curves. This result is an improvement relative to prior work which estimated the density of pairing-friendly genus 2 curves heuristically. Second, we present a method for generating pairing-friendly parameters for which \({\rho\approx 8}\) , where ρ is a measure of efficiency in pairing-based cryptography. This method works by solving a system of equations given in terms of coefficients of the Frobenius element. The algorithm is easy to understand and implement.

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Lauter, K., Shang, N. Generating pairing-friendly parameters for the CM construction of genus 2 curves over prime fields. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 67, 341–355 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-012-9611-8

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