High Performance Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication with Resistance Against Power Analysis Attacks

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (24) ◽  
pp. 4587-4594 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.F. Al-Somani ◽  
A.A. Amin
Keyword(s):  
Elliptic Curve ◽  
Power Analysis ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Scalar Multiplication ◽  
Power Analysis Attacks ◽  
Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication

scholarly journals A Novel Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication Algorithm against Power Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongming Liu ◽  
Yujie Zhou ◽  
Nianhao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Elliptic Curve ◽  
Power Analysis ◽  
Scalar Multiplication ◽  
Smart Cards ◽  
Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Embedded Devices ◽  
Power Analysis Attacks ◽  
Multiplication Algorithm ◽  
Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication

Nowadays, power analysis attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated. Through power analysis attacks, an attacker can obtain sensitive data stored in smart cards or other embedded devices more efficiently than with any other kind of physical attacks. Among power analysis, simple power analysis (SPA) is probably the most effective against elliptic curve cryptosystem, because an attacker can easily distinguish between point addition and point doubling in a single execution of scalar multiplication. To make elliptic curve scalar multiplication secure against SPA attacks, many methods have been proposed using special point representations. In this paper, a simple but efficient SPA-resistant multiscalar multiplication is proposed. The method is to convert the scalar into a nonadjacent form (NAF) representation at first and then constitute it in a new signed digit representation. This new representation is undertaken at a small precomputation cost, as each representation needs just one doubling and 1/2 additions for each bit. In addition, when combined with randomization techniques, the proposed method can also guard against differential power analysis (DPA) attack.

MicroBlaze-Based Multiprocessor Embedded Cryptosystem on FPGA for Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication Over Fp

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950037 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bellemou ◽  
N. Benblidia ◽  
M. Anane ◽  
M. Issad
Keyword(s):  
Elliptic Curve ◽  
Scalar Multiplication ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Prime Field ◽  
Montgomery Modular Multiplication ◽  
Parallel Implementations ◽  
High Radix ◽  
System On Programmable Chip ◽  
Xilinx Fpga ◽  
Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication

In this paper, we present Microblaze-based parallel architectures of Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication (ECSM) computation for embedded Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC) on Xilinx FPGA. The proposed implementations support arbitrary Elliptic Curve (EC) forms defined over large prime field ([Formula: see text]) with different security-level sizes. ECSM is performed using Montgomery Power Ladder (MPL) algorithm in Chudnovsky projective coordinates system. At the low abstraction level, Montgomery Modular Multiplication (MMM) is considered as the critical operation. It is implemented within a hardware Accelerator MMM (AccMMM) core based on the modified high radix, [Formula: see text] MMM algorithm. The efficiency of our parallel implementations is achieved by the combination of the mixed SW/HW approach with Multi Processor System on Programmable Chip (MPSoPC) design. The integration of multi MicroBlaze processor in single architecture allows not only the flexibility of the overall system but also the exploitation of the parallelism in ECSM computation with several degrees. The Virtex-5 parallel implementations of 256-bit and 521-bis ECSM computations run at 100[Formula: see text]MHZ frequency and consume between 2,739 and 6,533 slices, 22 and 72 RAMs and between 16 and 48 DSP48E cores. For the considered security-level sizes, the delays to perform single ECSM are between 115[Formula: see text]ms and 14.72[Formula: see text]ms.

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