An Elliptic Curve Cryptography Module Design for Network Security Accelerator
Hongyi Chen · Microelectronics & Computer · 2008
This work presentes an elliptic curve cryptography(ECC) module design for network security accelerator.This module supports not only several elliptic curve digital signature algorithms using two cooperating cores,but also scalar multiplication,point addition and point verification.This module was designed with 0.18 μm CMOS technology occuping 3.58 mm2 with critical path of 3.42 ns.More than 770 signatures or verifications of elliptic curve cryptography signature algorithm(ECDSA) could be done in one second when clock frequency is 250 MHz and the parameters are 192 bits in length.