Elliptic curve cryptosystem and its applications

Author

Raju, G.V.S. ; Bani, Rehan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Univ., San Antonio, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1540

Abstract

The goal of this research is to develop a basis for utilizing efficient encryption schemes in wireless communications and in devices with low computing power and resources. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) fits well for an efficient and secure encryption scheme. It is more efficient than the ubiquitous RSA based schemes because ECC utilizes smaller key sizes for equivalent security. A comparative study of ECC with RSA is made in terms of key size, computational power, size of data files and encrypted files. Also, another aim is to design an API to implement ECC encryption/decryption algorithm.

Keywords

application program interfaces; cryptography; mobile communication; telecommunication security; API design; ECC; Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem; application program interfaces; computational power; encrypted files; encryption scheme; encryption/decryption algorithm; low computing power devices; telecommunication security; ubiquitous RSA; wireless communications; Communication system security; Data security; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Information security; Mobile communication; Pervasive computing; Polynomials; Public key cryptography; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7952-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1244630

Filename

1244630