Parallel Computation of Optimal Ate Cryptographic Pairings at the $128$, $192$ and $256$-bit security levels using elliptic net algorithm

Abstract: Efficient computations of pairings with Miller Algorithm have recently received a great attention due to the many applications in cryptography. In this work, we give formulae for the optimal Ate pairing in terms of elliptic nets associated to twisted Barreto-Naehrig (BN) curve, Barreto-Lynn-Scott(BLS) curves and Kachisa-Schaefer-Scott(KSS) curves considered at the $128$, $192$ and $256$-bit security levels, and Scott-Guillevic curve with embedding degree $54$. We show how to parallelize the computation of these pairings when the elliptic net algorithm instead is used and we obtain except in the case of Kachisa-Schaefer-Scott(KSS) curves considered at the $256$-bit security level, more efficient theoretical results with $8$ processors compared to the case where the Miller algorithm is used. This work still confirms that $BLS48$ curves are the best for pairing-based cryptography at $256$-bit security level \cite{NARDIEFO19}.