A Study on the Parameter Size of the Montgomery Trick for ECDLP

In this research, the choice of the parameter of the Montgomery trick in Pollard’s Rho method to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem for Barreto-Naehrig (BN) curves is shown. The average number of generated rational points per unit time is chosen as a measure of the effectiveness of the choice of the parameter of the Montgomery trick. The results are derived from a sufficient number of experiments with several BN curves.