A Parallelized Design for an Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem Coprocessor

  • Authors:
  • Fabio Sozzani;Guido Bertoni;Stefano Turcato;Luca Breveglieri

  • Affiliations:
  • STMicroelectronics;STMicroelectronics;Politecnico di Milano;Politecnico di Milano

  • Venue:
  • ITCC '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume I - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In many applications a software implementation of ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) might be inappropriate due to performance requirements, therefore hardware implementations are needed. We present some results about a novel hardware implementation for ECC, that introduces also a form of parallelism to maximize the use of function units and hence to improve the throughput. Then we propose a comprehensive comparison of this new architecture with both some RSA architectures and other ECC implementations in ASIC VLSI technology.