Finding orientations of supersingular elliptic curves and quaternion orders

Arpin, Sarah and Clements, James and Dartois, Pierrick and Eriksen, Jonathan Komada and Kutas, Péter and Wesolowski, Benjamin (2024) Finding orientations of supersingular elliptic curves and quaternion orders. DESIGNS CODES AND CRYPTOGRAPHY. ISSN 0925-1022

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Abstract

An oriented supersingular elliptic curve is a curve which is enhanced with the information of an endomorphism. Computing the full endomorphism ring of a supersingular elliptic curve is a known hard problem, so one might consider how hard it is to find one such orientation. We prove that access to an oracle which tells if an elliptic curve is -orientable for a fixed imaginary quadratic order provides non-trivial information towards computing an endomorphism corresponding to the -orientation. We provide explicit algorithms and in-depth complexity analysis. We also consider the question in terms of quaternion algebras. We provide algorithms which compute an embedding of a fixed imaginary quadratic order into a maximal order of the quaternion algebra ramified at p and . We provide code implementations in Sagemath (in Stein et al. Sage Mathematics Software (Version 10.0), The Sage Development Team, http://www.sagemath.org, 2023) which is efficient for finding embeddings of imaginary quadratic orders of discriminants up to O(p), even for cryptographically sized p.

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