A High Speed Scalar Multiplier for Binary Edwards Curves
Apostolos P. Fournaris, Nicolas Sklavos, Christos Koulamas · 2016
Binary Edwards Curves (BEC) constitute an exciting elliptic curve variation that has very interesting benefits when it comes to side channel attack resistance. However, BECs require more GF(2k) operations for a single scalar multiplication and this acts as a deterring factor for their wide adoption and standardization. In this paper, a high speed BEC scalar multiplication architecture and implementation is proposed based on a parallel design strategy of the GF(2k) operations that provides power analysis attack resistance against a variety of attacks.