how EC Public key is generated from the private key effectively

if my private key is 123456789123456789, doesn't that mean I have to dot G point that many times to generate my pubkey? there must be a shortcut to generate pubkey, otherwise the time complicity of generating the pubkey is the same compare to brutal force from trying from 1 to k? Am I missing anything here?

according to the article here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/

it looks like generating pubkey from a random generated private key(which could be a 32 bytes BigInteger) requires to dot many times = integer value of the private key. which is impossible considering the key size for the private key is 2^256(32 bytes key space).

linehrr

Posted 2018-05-10T19:58:32.687

Reputation: 113

Answers

There are a number of more efficient algorithms to compute the multiplication than just the naive method described. A simple one is double-and-add where the point is repeatedly doubled and then added with previous doublings in order to calculate the final public key. There are a number of more complicated methods which are more efficient.

You can read about these on Wikipedia.

Andrew Chow

Posted 2018-05-10T19:58:32.687

Reputation: 40 910

that's exactly what I was hoping for. thank you. – linehrr – 2018-05-11T12:59:03.623