Computing isogenies between supersingular elliptic curves over F_p

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Abstract: Let p>3 be a prime and let E, E' be supersingular elliptic curves over F_p. We want to construct an isogeny phi: E --> E'. The currently fastest algorithm for finding isogenies between supersingular elliptic curves solves this problem by performing a "meet-in-the-middle" breadth-first search in the full supersingular 2-isogeny graph over F_{p^2}. In this paper we consider the structure of the isogeny graph of supersingular elliptic curves over F_p. We give an algorithm to construct isogenies between such supersingular elliptic curves that works faster than the usual algorithm. We then discuss how this results can be used to obtain an improved algorithm for the general supersingular isogeny problem.


In this article, the authors consider the problem of constructing an isogeny between two supersingular elliptic curves defined over \(\mathbb{F}_p\) (\(p>3\)). The fastest known algorithm to do this solves the problem in the isogeny graph of cardinality \(O(p)\) of all supersingular curves over \({\mathbb{F}}_{p^2}\) using a meet-in-the-middle search and runs in \(\tilde{O}(p^{1/2})\) (the notation \(\tilde{O}\) means forgetting about logarithmic factors). The present idea is to use the fact that both curves are defined over \(\mathbb{F}_p\) to find a path in a graph which looks more like the ordinary case graph and which has only \(\tilde{O}(p^{1/2})\) elements, hence a complexity of \(\tilde{O}(p^{1/4})\). In order to provide the algorithm, the authors rely on the classical results of [\textit{W. C. Waterhouse}, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 2, 521--560 (1969; Zbl 0188.53001)] to derive the structure of the graph, in particular a minimal set of isogeny degrees which make the graph connected.




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