RSA cryptosystem design based on the Chinese remainder theorem

  • Authors:
  • Chung-Hsien Wu;Jin-Hua Hong;Cheng-Wen Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, ROC;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2001 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a systolic RSA cryptosystem based on a modified Montgomery's algorithm and the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) technique. The CRT technique improves the throughput rate up to 4 times in the best case. The processing unit of the systolic array has 100% utilization because of the proposed block interleaving technique for multiplication and square operations in the modular exponentiation algorithm. For 512-bit inputs, the number of clock cycles needed for a modular exponentiation is about 0.13M to 0.24M. The critical path delay is 6.13ns using a 0.6um CMOS technology. With a 150 MHz clock, we can achieve an encryption/decryption rate of about 328 to 578 Kb/s.