Title
An ECDSA pocessor for RFID athentication
Abstract
In the last few years, a lot of research has been made to bring asymmetric cryptography on low-cost RFID tags. Many of the proposed implementations include elliptic-curve based coprocessors to provide entity-authentication services through for example identification schemes. This paper presents first results of an 192-bit Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) processor that allows both entity and also message authentication by digitally signing challenges from a reader. The proposed architecture enhances the state-of-the-art in designing a low-resource ECDSA-enabled RFID hardware implementation. A tiny microcontroller is integrated to provide protocol scalability and re-use of common algorithms. The proposed processor signs a message within 859 188 clock cycles (127 ms at 6.78MHz) and has a total chip size of 19 115 gate equivalents.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-16822-2_16
RFIDSec
Keywords
DocType
Volume
rfid tag,chip,elliptic curve digital signature algorithm,elliptic curve,message authentication
Conference
6370
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-642-16821-3
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.79
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Hutter134525.26
Martin Feldhofer230122.92
Thomas Plos323519.19