An elliptic curve encryption processing method and an elliptic curve encryption processing apparatus enable high-speed elliptic curve encryption processing computations to be realized. In elliptic curve encryption processing computations, two scalar multiplications, kP and lQ, are not performed separately, but the computation process of kP+lQ is performed simultaneously. In the computation of scalar multiplications, kP and lQ are set on a Montgomery elliptic curve By.sup.2=x.sup.3+Ax.sup.2+x. On the basis of a combination of each bit value of k and l from the high-order bits of the binary representation data of the scalar quantities k and l, a computation relation of the next four points based on the computed four points is selected, and based on the selected relation, a process of computing the next four points is repeatedly performed to eventually compute kP+lQ.

 
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