IACR News item: 23 December 2015
Debapriya Basu Roy, Poulami Das, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
ePrint Report
Lightweight implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography
on FPGA has been a popular research topic due to the boom of ubiquitous computing. In this paper we propose a novel single instruction
based ultra-light ECC crypto-processor coupled with dedicated hard-IPs
of the FPGAs. We show that by using the proposed single instruction
framework and using the available block RAMs and DSPs of FPGAs,
we can design an ECC crypto-processor for NIST curve P-256, requiring
only 81 and 72 logic slices on Virtes-5 and Spartan-6 devices respectively.To the best of our knowledge, this is the first implementation of ECC which requires less than 100 slices on any FPGA device family.
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