Differential power analysis (DPA) attack on dual field ECC processor for cryptographic applications

Author

Suresh, J. Sam ; Manjushree, A. ; Eswaran, P.

Author_Institution

Angel Coll. of Eng. & Technol., Tirupur, India

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Exchange of private information over a public medium must incorporate a method for data protection against unauthorized access. To enhance the data security against the DPA attack in network communication, a dual field ECC processor supporting all finite field operations is proposed. The ECC processor performs hardware designs in terms of functionality, scalability, performance and power consumption. A unified scheme is introduced to accelerate EC arithmetic functions. The hardware is optimized by a very compact Galois field arithmetic unit with fully pipelined technique. A key-blinded technique is designed against power analysis attacks.

Keywords

Galois fields; pipeline arithmetic; public key cryptography; DPA attack; EC arithmetic functions; Galois field arithmetic unit; cryptographic applications; data security; differential power analysis; dual field ECC processor; elliptical curve cryptography; fully pipelined technique; hardware optimization; key-blinded technique; network communication; Algorithm design and analysis; Computers; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Hardware; DPA; Dual fields; ECC; Galois field; Public key cryptography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2353-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCI.2014.6921775

Filename

6921775