Reconfigurable Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems on a Chip

  • Authors:
  • Ray C. C. Cheung;Wayne Luk;Peter Y. K. Cheung

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College London, UK;Imperial College London, UK;Imperial College London, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems (ECC) which targets reconfigurable hardware. A four-level partitioning scheme is described for exploring the area and speed trade-offs. A design generator is used to generate parameterisable building blocks for the configurable SoC architecture. A secure web server, which runs on a reconfigurable soft-processor and an embedded hard-processor, shows over 2000 times speedup when the computationally-intensive operations run on the customised building blocks. The embedded on-chip timer block gives accurate performance information. The design factors of configurable SoC architectures are also discussed and evaluated.