Title
Multiple-Valued Constant-Power Adder for Cryptographic Processors
Abstract
This paper presents the design of a multiple-valued adder for tamper-resistant cryptographic processors. The proposed adder is implemented in Multiple-Valued Current-Mode Logic (MV-CML). The important feature of MV-CML is that the power consumption can be constant regardless of the input values, which makes it possible to prevent power analysis attacks using dependencies between power consumption and intermediate values or operations of the executed cryptographic algorithms. In this paper, we present a multiple-valued constant-power adder based on the binary Positive-Digit (PD) number system and its application to RSA processors. The power characteristic of the proposed adder is evaluated with HSPICE simulation using 90nm process technology. The proposed design can achieve constant power consumption with low performance overhead in comparison with the conventional binary design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ISMVL.2009.9
ISMVL
Keywords
Field
DocType
adders,microprocessor chips,public key cryptography,HSPICE simulation,RSA processors,binary positive-digit number,multiple-valued constant-power adder,multiple-valued current-mode logic,power analysis attacks,power consumption,tamper-resistant cryptographic processors,Cryptographic Processor,Current-Mode Logic,Multiple-Valued Adder,Power Analysis Attack,Tamper-resistance
Logic synthesis,Power analysis,Logic gate,Algorithm design,Adder,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Serial binary adder,Carry-save adder,Energy consumption
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuichi Baba140.80
Atsushi Miyamoto2615.16
Naofumi Homma337753.81
Takafumi Aoki4915125.99