Title
Flexible hardware reduction for elliptic curve cryptography in GF(2m)
Abstract
In this paper we discuss two ways to provide flexible hardware support for the reduction step in Elliptic Curve Cryptography in binary fields (GF(2m)). In our first approach we are using several dedicated reduction units within a single multiplier. Our measurement results show that this simple approach leads to an additional area consumption of less than 10% compared to a dedicated design without performance penalties. In our second approach any elliptic curve cryptography up to a predefined maximal length can be supported. Here we take advantage of the features of commonly used reduction polynomials. Our results show a significant area penalty compared to dedicated designs. However, we achieve flexibility and the performance is still significantly better than those of known ECC hardware accelerator approaches with similar flexibility or even software implementations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/DATE.2007.364470
design, automation, and test in europe
Keywords
Field
DocType
ECC hardware accelerator approach,flexible hardware reduction,additional area consumption,reduction polynomial,dedicated design,performance penalty,flexible hardware support,simple approach,reduction step,dedicated reduction unit,Elliptic Curve Cryptography,elliptic curve cryptography
Symmetric-key algorithm,Cryptography,Computer science,Parallel computing,Multiplier (economics),Software performance testing,Hardware acceleration,Computer hardware,Elliptic curve cryptography,GF(2),Elliptic curve
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1591
4
0.55
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steffen Peter119415.62
Peter Langendörfer218537.01
Krzysztof Piotrowski317214.37