Title :
Hardware implementations of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Houssain, Hilal ; Badra, Mohamad ; Al-Somani, Turki F.
Author_Institution :
LIMOS Lab., Aubiere, France
Abstract :
This paper presents a study of hardware implementations of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). A critical study of the underlying finite field, representation basis, occupied chip area, consumed power, and time performances of these implementations is conducted. The study shows that most of the reviewed implementations were implemented on Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and only one was implemented on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Most of these implementations were implemented over the binary fields GF(2m) and using polynomial basis representation.
Keywords :
Galois fields; application specific integrated circuits; field programmable gate arrays; public key cryptography; wireless sensor networks; ASIC; ECC); FPGA; application specific integrated circuits; binary fields GF(2m); elliptic curve cryptography; field programmable gate array; polynomial basis representation; wireless sensor networks; CMOS integrated circuits; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Hardware; Polynomials; Wireless sensor networks; Elliptic Curve Cryptography; Field Programmable Gate Array; GF(2m); Normal Basis; Polynomial Basis; Wireless Sensor Networks;
Conference_Titel :
Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST), 2011 International Conference for
Conference_Location :
Abu Dhabi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0884-8
