Low-Cost Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Coprocessor for Smart Cards

Authors:
Guerric Meurice de Dormale;Renaud Ambroise;David Bol;Jean-Jacques Quisquater;Jean-Didier Legat
Affiliations:
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Venue:
ASAP '06 Proceedings of the IEEE 17th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper proposes different low-cost coprocessors for public key authentication on 8-bit smart cards. Elliptic curve cryptography is used for its efficiency per bit of key and the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm is chosen. For this functionality, an area constrained coprocessor is probably the best approach to perform the most computer-intensive operations at an acceptable speed considering the limited memory and power of the selected platform. For that purpose, the scalar point multiplication in GF(2m) in both affine and projective coordinates was implemented in order to compare their performances with the same level of optimization and the same technology. A hardware/ software co-design strategy was also used to avoid the need of a dedicated register file.