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Elliptic curves find numerous applications. This paper describes a simple strategy to speed up their arithmetic in right-to-left methods. In certain settings, this leads to a non-negligible performance increase compared to the left-to-right counterparts.
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Joye, M. (2008). Fast Point Multiplication on Elliptic Curves without Precomputation. In: von zur Gathen, J., Imaña, J.L., Koç, Ç.K. (eds) Arithmetic of Finite Fields. WAIFI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69499-1_4
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