Title :
A reconfigurable arithmetic logic unit for elliptic curve cryptosystems over GF (2m)
Author :
Schmalisch, Mathias ; Timmermann, Dirk
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Appl. Microelectron. & Comput. Sci., Rostock Univ., Germany
Abstract :
In this paper the authors presented an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) for elliptic curve cryptosystems over GF (2m). The novelty of these ALU is the inclusion of a hardware inversion operation, which is as fast as a multiplication. So faster algorithms can be used for the computation of kP. Although a serial multiplication and inversion was used, a faster computation than other parallelized hardware implementations was achieved.
Keywords :
cryptography; digital arithmetic; reconfigurable architectures; elliptic curve cryptosystems; hardware inversion; reconfigurable arithmetic logic unit; Arithmetic; Computer science; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Equations; Galois fields; Hardware; Microelectronics; Public key cryptography; Reconfigurable logic; Elliptic curve cryptosystems; arithmetic logic unit; finite field arithmetic; polynomial basis;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2003 IEEE 46th Midwest Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8294-3
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2003.1562415
