Comparison of ECC and RSA algorithm in multipurpose smart card application

Author

Savari, Maryam ; Montazerolzohour, Mohammad ; Thiam, Yeoh Eng

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. & Inf., Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 June 2012

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

53

Abstract

The main role of encryption algorithms is to keep devises safe from attack. Using the best and more efficient algorithm for a device according to its storage and amount of data transfer is the most important part. This paper compares Elliptical Curve Cryptography algorithm (ECC) with RSA algorithm on a multipurpose smart card. There are three applications in our multipurpose smart card which is named health, credit and passport card. ECC is compared with 160 bit key size and RSA with 1024 bit key size. The result of comparison is described in the final section.

Keywords

public key cryptography; smart cards; 1024 bit key size; 160 bit key size; ECC algorithm; RSA algorithm; Rivest-Shamir-Adleman cryptography; credit card; data storage; data transfer; elliptical curve cryptography; encryption algorithms; health card; multipurpose smart card application; passport card; Algorithm design and analysis; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Encryption; Smart cards; AES; Combination algorithm; DES; Decryption; ECC; Encryption; RSA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic (CyberSec), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1425-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CyberSec.2012.6246121

Filename

6246121