1. Group law
    Addition on twisted Edwards curves  Doubling on twisted Edwards curves 

2. Extended coordinates
    Inverted twisted Edwards coordinates  Projective twisted Edwards coordinates 

3. Addition in projective twisted curves
    Doubling on projective twisted curves 

4. See also

5. Notes

6. References

7. External links

In algebraic geometry, the twisted Edwards curves are plane models of elliptic curves, a generalisation of Edwards curves introduced by Bernstein, Birkner, Joye, Lange and Peters in 2008.^[1] The curve set is named after mathematician Harold M. Edwards. Elliptic curves are important in public key cryptography and twisted Edwards curves are at the heart of an electronic signature scheme called EdDSA that offers high performance while avoiding security problems that have surfaced in other digital signature schemes.

As the name suggests, each twisted Edwards curve is a twist of an Edwards curve.

A twisted Edwards curve over a field which have is an affine plane curve defined by the equation:

where are distinct non-zero elements of . The special case is untwisted, because the curve reduces to an ordinary Edwards curve.

Every twisted Edwards curve is birationally equivalent to an elliptic curve in Montgomery form and vice versa.{{Citation needed|date=August 2018}}

Group law

As for all elliptic curves, also for the twisted Edwards curve, it is possible to do some operations between its points, such as adding two of them or doubling (or tripling) one. The results of these operations are always points that belong to the curve itself. In the following sections some formulas are given to obtain the coordinates of a point resulted from an addition between two other points (addition), or the coordinates of point resulted from a doubling of a single point on a curve.

Addition on twisted Edwards curves

Let be a field with characteristic different from 2.

Let and be points on the twisted Edwards curve. The equation of twisted Edwards curve is written as;

E_E,a,d: .

The sum of these points on E_E,a,d is:

The neutral element is (0,1) and the negative of is (

These formulas also work for doubling. If a is a square in and d is a non-square in  , these formulas are complete: this means that they can be used for all pairs of points without exceptions; so they work for doubling as well, and neutral elements and negatives are accepted as inputs.^[2]

Given the following twisted Edwards curve with a=3 and d=2:

it is possible to add the points and using the formula given above. The result is a point P₃ that has coordinates:

.

Doubling on twisted Edwards curves

Doubling can be performed with exactly the same formula as addition.

Doubling of a point (x₁,y₁) on the curve E_E,a,d is:

[2](x₁,y₁) = (x₃,y₃)

where

Considering the same twisted Edwards curve given in the previous example, with a=3 and d=2, it is possible to double the point . The point 2P₁ obtained using the formula above has the following coordinates:

It is easy to see, with some little computations, that the point belongs to the curve .

Extended coordinates

There is another kind of coordinate system with which a point in the twisted Edwards curves can be represented.

A point on is represented as X, Y, Z, T satisfying the following equations

x=X/Z, y=Y/Z, xy=T/Z.

The coordinates of the point (X:Y:Z:T) are called the extended twisted Edwards coordinates. The identity element is represented by (0:1:1:0). The negative of a point is (-X:Y:Z:-T).

Inverted twisted Edwards coordinates

The coordinates of the point are called the inverted twisted Edwards coordinates on the curve

with ≠0; this point to the affine one on E_E,a,d.

Bernstein and Lange introduced these inverted coordinates, for the case a=1 and observed that the coordinates save time in addition.

Projective twisted Edwards coordinates

The equation for the projective twisted Edwards curve is given as:

For Z₁≠0 the point (X₁:Y₁:Z₁) represents the affine point (x₁= X₁/Z₁, y₁= Y₁/Z₁) on E_E,a,d.

Expressing an elliptic curve in twisted Edwards form saves time in arithmetic, even when the same curve can be expressed in the Edwards form.

Addition in projective twisted curves

The addition on a projective twisted Edwards curve is given by

(X₃:Y₃:Z₃) = (X₁:Y₁:Z₁)+(X₂:Y₂:Z₂)

and costs 10Multiplications + 1Squaring + 2D + 7 additions, where the 2D are one multiplication by a and one by d.

Algorithm

A = Z₁.Z₂,

B = A²

C = X₁.X₂

D = Y₁.Y₂

E = dC.D

F = B − E

G = B + E

X₃ = A.F((X₁+Y₁).(X₂+Y₂) − C − D)

Y₃ = A.G.(D − aC)

Z₃ = F.G

Doubling on projective twisted curves

Doubling on the projective twisted curve is given by

(X₃:Y₃:Z₃) = 2(X₁:Y₁:Z₁).

This costs 3Multiplications + 4Squarings + 1D + 7additions, where 1D is a multiplication by a.

Algorithm

B = (X₁ + Y₁)²

C = X₁²

D = Y₁²

E = aC

F = E + D

H = Z₁²

J = F − 2H

X₃ = (B − C − D).J

Y₃ = F.(E − D)

Z₃ = F.J^[1]

See also

• EdDSA
• For more information about the running time required in a specific case, see Table of costs of operations in elliptic curves.

Notes

References

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External links

• http://hyperelliptic.org/EFD/g1p/index.html
• http://hyperelliptic.org/EFD/g1p/auto-twisted.html
• The Ed25519 algorithm: http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/

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