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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2020.24.11.1470

A Security SoC supporting ECC based Public-Key Security Protocols  

Kim, Dong-Seong (School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Shin, Kyung-Wook (School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.24, no.11, 2020 , pp. 1470-1476 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper describes a design of a lightweight security system-on-chip (SoC) suitable for the implementation of security protocols for IoT and mobile devices. The security SoC using Cortex-M0 as a CPU integrates hardware crypto engines including an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) core, a SHA3 hash core, an ARIA-AES block cipher core and a true random number generator (TRNG) core. The ECC core was designed to support twenty elliptic curves over both prime field and binary field defined in the SEC2, and was based on a word-based Montgomery multiplier in which the partial product generations/additions and modular reductions are processed in a sub-pipelining manner. The H/W-S/W co-operation for elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (EC-DSA) protocol was demonstrated by implementing the security SoC on a Cyclone-5 FPGA device. The security SoC, synthesized with a 65-nm CMOS cell library, occupies 193,312 gate equivalents (GEs) and 84 kbytes of RAM.
Keywords
Security SoC; Elliptic curve cryptography; Digital signature algorithm; Block cipher; Hash function;
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