MiniPASS: Authentication and Digital Signatures in a Constrained Environment

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey Hoffstein;Joseph H. Silverman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CHES '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We describe an implementation of the PASS polynomial authentication and signature scheme [5,6] that is suitable for use in highly constrained environments such as smart cards and wireless applications. The algorithm underlying the PASS scheme, as described in [5,6], already features high speed and a small footprint, and these are further enhanced by transferring computational overhead to the server to the extent possible. We also describe timing and footprint results from a prototype implementation.