Configurable secure ECC hardware module for resource constrained device

Author

Xu, Qian ; Zhou, Yujie ; Mao, Junfa

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron., Inf. & Electr. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

19-21 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

424

Lastpage

427

Abstract

In this paper, a novel ECC hardware module that provides different secure levels for resource constrained device is introduced. We adopt MOF left-to-right recoding scheme to achieve small area. Moreover, the design reduces the area cost of modular inversion by exploring reusability. Another distinct feature associated with this module is that an MOF based SPA-resistant algorithm is proposed to offer configurable protections against SPA. This algorithm not only reduces dummy operations, but also has a low additional cost. Finally, the ECC core is evaluated under SMIC 0.18-Â¿m technology. Our design using totally 87 K gates achieves operation times of 2.46 ms without countermeasures and 3.53 ms with countermeasures for 160-bit scalar multiplication in GF (p) at 100 MHz.

Keywords

microprocessor chips; public key cryptography; ECC core; ECC hardware module; MOF based SPA-resistant algorithm; MOF left-to-right recoding scheme; elliptic curve cryptosystems; resource constrained device; size 0.18 mum; Algorithm design and analysis; Clocks; Costs; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Hardware; Pipelines; Protection; Random access memory; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics & Electronics, 2009. PrimeAsia 2009. Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4668-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4669-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PRIMEASIA.2009.5397353

Filename

5397353