High Speed Elliptic Curve Crypto Processors: Design Space Exploration by Means of Reconfigurable Hardware

Published in: Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific and Applied Conference - Information Security, Taganrog, Russian Federation, July 2004, ISBN 5-8327-0172-0

Abstract

Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) has emerged in the recent past as an important alternative to the well-known RSA public key scheme. The implementation of a public key infrastructure (PKI) has to address aspects as low level as efficient hardware implementations as well as higher level aspects such as integration with user level programs. This paper reports on two representative aspects from this wide range of topics. First, a highly scalable and performant multiplier for finite fields is presented. Then we illustrate the integration of cryptoprocessors developed at our institute into the commercial FlexiProvider system.

Authors

Sorin A. Huss, Michael Jung, Felix Madlener

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