Fast Exponentiation with Precomputation: Algorithms and Lower Bounds

In several cryptographic systems, a fixed element g of a group of order N is repeatedly raised to many different powers. In this paper we present a practical method of speeding up such systems, using precomputed values to reduce the number of multiplications needed. In practice this provides a substantial improvement over the level of performance that can be obtained using addition chains, and allows the computation of gn for n