A quantum circuit to find discrete logarithms on ordinary binary elliptic curves in depth O(log^2 n)

M. Rötteler; R. Steinwandt; Martin Roetteler

A quantum circuit to find discrete logarithms on ordinary binary elliptic curves in depth O(log^2 n)

M. Rötteler ,
R. Steinwandt ,
Martin Roetteler

Quant. Inform. & Comp. | July 2014 , Vol 14(9-10): pp. 888-900

Accepted for publication. See also arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.1161

Improving over an earlier construction by Kaye and Zalka, Maslov et al. describe an implementation of Shor’s algorithm which can solve the discrete logarithm problem on binary elliptic curves in quadratic depth O(n²). In this paper we show that discrete logarithms on such curves can be found with a quantum circuit of depth O(log² n). As technical tools we introduce quantum circuits for GF(2ⁿ) multiplication in depth O(log n) and for GF(2ⁿ) inversion in depth O(log² n).