Hardware/Software Co-Design of Elliptic-Curve Cryptography for Resource-Constrained Applications
Andrea Höller, Norbert Druml, Christian Kreiner, Christian Steger, Tomaz Felicijan · 2014
ECC is an asymmetric encryption providing a comparably high cryptographic strength in relation to the key sizes employed. This makes ECC attractive for resource-constrained systems. While pure hardware solutions usually offer a good performance and a low power consumption, they are inflexible and typically lead to a high area.