Efficient Additions and Montgomery Reductions of Large Integers for SIMD

This paper presents efficient algorithms, designed to leverage SIMD for performing additions and Montgomery reductions on integers larger than 512 bits. The existing algorithms encounter inefficiencies when parallelized using SIMD due to extensive dependencies in both operations, particularly noticeable in ARM’s SVE where SIMD operations are costly. To mitigate this problem, a novel addition algorithm is introduced that simulates the addition of large integers using a smaller addition, quickly producing the same set of carries. These carries are then utilized to perform parallel additions on large integers. For Montgomery reductions, serial multiplications are replaced with precomputations that can be effectively calculated using SIMD extensions. Experimental evidence demonstrates that these proposed algorithms substantially enhance the performance of state-of-the-art implementations of several post-quantum cryptography algorithms. Notably, they deliver a 30% speed-up from the latest CTIDH implementation, an 11% speed-up from the latest CSIDH implementation in AVX-512 processors, and a 7% speed-up from Microsoft’s standard PQCrypto-SIDH for SIKEp503 on A64FX.