The SEA algorithm for endomorphisms of supersingular elliptic curves
Abstract
For a prime and a supersingular elliptic curve defined over with , consider an endomorphism of represented as a composition of isogenies of degree at most . We prove that the trace of may be computed in bit operations, where , using a generalization of the SEA algorithm for computing the trace of the Frobenius endomorphism of an ordinary elliptic curve. When and , this complexity matches the heuristic complexity of the SEA algorithm. Our theorem is unconditional, unlike the complexity analysis of the SEA algorithm, since the kernel of an arbitrary isogeny of a supersingular elliptic curve is defined over an extension of constant degree, independent of . We also provide practical speedups, including a fast algorithm to compute the trace of modulo .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.16321,
title = {The SEA algorithm for endomorphisms of supersingular elliptic curves},
author = {Travis Morrison and Lorenz Panny and Jana Sotáková and Michael Wills},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16321},
year = {2025}
}
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16 pages, 1 figure