Low-Complexity Elliptic Curve Cryptography Processor Based on Configurable Partial Modular Reduction over NIST Prime Fields

Piljoo Choi, Mun Kyu Lee, Ji Hoon Kim, Dong Kyue Kim

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Abstract

We proposed a high-performance elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) processor over NIST prime fields. Instead of applying a full modular reduction to a 2k-bit product, the proposed partial modular reduction method iteratively performs reductions on partial products whose bit length is slightly greater than k, where k is the bit length of field elements. As a result, the computational complexity of modular multiplication (MM) was significantly reduced. Moreover, the amount of computation is configurable by parameterizing the size of the partial products. This is a very desirable characteristic of the proposed ECC processor, because the hardware complexity and processing time of the entire ECC processor can be adjusted according to the requirements of various Internet of Things environments. Including the proposed MM module, finite field operation modules are integrated into a single module to further reduce the required resources. The proposed ECC processor synthesized using 180-nm CMOS process technology can perform a 256-bit elliptic curve point multiplication in 0.20-0.74 ms with 144.8k-65.4k gate counts. These results and the experimental results in various FPGA devices show that the proposed ECC processor has significantly better throughput per area than the previously reported ones.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8049496
Pages (from-to)1703-1707
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Volume65
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2018

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Keywords

  • Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)
  • finite field
  • hardware implementation
  • partial modular reduction

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