THOMAS—A complete single chip RSA device

  • Authors:
  • Gordon Rankine

  • Affiliations:
  • Raannd Systems Ltd., Livingston, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings on Advances in cryptology---CRYPTO '86
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

This paper examines a novel implementation of a 512-bit modulus exponentiator for applications in RSA key management environments.The device, known by the internal project code THOMAS, is a complete single chip RSA implementation. No other. device is necessary to compute the RSA components, other than the control elements associated with the crypto-system.The approach chosen is examined to establish the benefits from the implementation in comparison with potentially faster but less flexible techniques.