Accelerating Next-Generation Public-Key Cryptosystems on General-Purpose CPUs

  • Authors:
  • Hans Eberle;Sheueling Shantz;Vipul Gupta;Nils Gura;Leonard Rarick;Lawrence Spracklen

  • Affiliations:
  • Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Sun Microsystems Laboratories;Sun Microsystems Laboratories

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This article describes low-cost techniques for accelerating the ECC and RSA public-key cryptosystems on general-purpose processor architectures. A prototype based on a Sparc CPU data path shows a clear performance advantage of ECC over RSA.