Abstract
This paper focuses on designing elliptic curve crypto-accelerators in GF (2 m) that are cryptographically scalable and hold some degree of reconfigurability. Previous work in elliptic curve crypto-accelerators focused on implementations using projective coordinate systems for specific field sizes. Their performance, scalar point multiplication per second (kP/s), was determined primarily by the underlying multiplier implementation. In addition, a multiplier only implementation and a multiplier plus divider implementation are compared in terms of critical path, area, and area time (AT) product Our multiplier only design, designed for high performance, can achieve 6314 kP/s for GF(2 571) and requires 47876 LUTs. Meanwhile our multiplier and divider design, with a greater degree of reconflgurability, can achieve 44 kP/s for GF(2 571). However, this design requires 27355 LUTs, and has a significantly higher AT product. It is shown that reconfigurability with the reduction polynomial significantly benefits from the addition of a low latency divider unit and scalar point multiplication in affine coordinates. In both cases the performance is limited by a critical path in the control logic.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 471-477 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers |
Volume | 1 |
State | Published - Dec 1 2004 |
Event | Conference Record of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers - Pacific Grove, CA, United States Duration: Nov 7 2004 → Nov 10 2004 |