Low power elliptic curve cryptography

  • Authors:
  • Maurice Keller;William Marnane

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland;Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • PATMOS'07 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design: power and timing modeling, optimization and simulation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The designer of an elliptic curve processor is faced with many design choices that include the algorithm and coordinate system to be used. The power consumption of elliptic curve processors is becoming increasingly important as such processors find new uses in power constrained environments. This paper studies the effect that algorithm and coordinate choices have on the power consumption and energy per point multiplication of an FPGA based, reconfigurable elliptic curve processor.