We consider numeration systems where digits are integers and the base is an algebraic number β such that |β| > 1 and β satisfies a polynomial where one coefficient is dominant in a certain sense. For this class of bases β, we can find an alphabet of signed-digits on which addition is realizable by a parallel algorithm in constant time. This algorithm is a kind of generalization of the one of Av...

In this paper we propose a new approach to point scalar multiplication on elliptic curves defined over fields of characteristic greater than 3. It is based on new point addition formulae that suit very well to exponentiation algorithms based on Euclidean addition chains. However finding small chains remains a very difficult problem, so we also develop a specific exponentiation algorithm, based ...