Title :
Design of flexible GF(2/sup m/) elliptic curve cryptography processors
Author :
Benaissa, Mohammed ; Ming Lim, Wei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Sheffield
fDate :
6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The design of flexible elliptic curve cryptography processors (ECP) is considered in this paper. Novel word-level algorithms and implementations for the underlying GF(2m) multiplication and squaring arithmetic which enable improved flexibility versus performance tradeoffs, are presented and employed in the design of an efficient flexible ECP architecture; corresponding field-programmable gate-array (FPGA) prototyping results for two different processor word lengths are also included for evaluation
Keywords :
cryptography; field programmable gate arrays; logic design; microprocessor chips; Galois field; design; elliptic curve cryptography processors; field-programmable gate arrays; squaring arithmetic; underlying GF(2m) multiplication; Algorithm design and analysis; Application specific processors; Arithmetic; Elliptic curve cryptography; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Performance loss; Polynomials; Prototypes; Very large scale integration; Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC); field-programmable gate array (FPGA);
Journal_Title :
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TVLSI.2006.878235
