Title of article :
Effcient elliptic curve cryptosystems
Author/Authors :
Darweesh, Kamal Department - Palestine Technical University-Kadoorie - Tulkarm, Palestine , Saleh, Mohammad Department - Birzeit University, Palestine
Abstract :
Elliptic curve cryptosystems (ECC) are new generations of public key cryptosystems that have a
smaller key size for the same level of security. The exponentiation on elliptic curve is the most
important operation in ECC, so when the ECC is put into practice, the major problem is how
to enhance the speed of the exponentiation. It is thus of great interest to develop algorithms for
exponentiation, which allow efficient implementations of ECC. In this paper, we improve efficient
algorithm for exponentiation on elliptic curves defined over Fp in terms of affine coordinates. The
algorithm computes 2n2(2n1P +Q) directly from random points P and Q on an elliptic curve, without
computing the intermediate points. Moreover, we apply the algorithm to exponentiation on elliptic
curves with width{w Mutual Opposite Form (wMOF) and analyze their computational complexity.
This algorithm can speed up the wMOF exponentiation of elliptic curves of size 160{bit about (21.7%)
as a result of its implementation with respect to affine coordinates.
Keywords :
cryptography , elliptic curves , affine coordinates
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics