• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.254-256
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• 2019

소수체 GF(p)와 이진체 $GF(2^m)$ 상의 다중 타원곡선을 지원하는 듀얼 필드 ECC (DF-ECC) 프로세서를 설계하였다. DF-ECC 프로세서의 저면적 설와 다양한 타원곡선의 지원이 가능하도록 워드 기반 몽고메리 곱셈 알고리듬을 적용한 유한체 곱셈기를 저면적으로 설계하였으며, 페르마의 소정리(Fermat's little theorem)를 유한체 곱셈기에 적용하여 유한체 나눗셈을 구현하였다. 설계된 DF-ECC 프로세서는 스칼라 곱셈과 점 연산, 그리고 모듈러 연산 기능을 가져 다양한 공개키 암호 프로토콜에 응용이 가능하며, 유한체 및 모듈러 연산에 적용되는 파라미터를 내부 연산으로 생성하여 다양한 표준의 타원곡선을 지원하도록 하였다. 설계된 DF-ECC는 FPGA 구현을 하드웨어 동작을 검증하였으며, 0.18-um CMOS 셀 라이브러리로 합성한 결과 22,262 GEs (gate equivalences)와 11 kbit RAM으로 구현되었으며, 최대 100 MHz의 동작 주파수를 갖는다. 설계된 DF-ECC 프로세서의 연산성능은 B-163 Koblitz 타원곡선의 경우 스칼라 곱셈 연산에 885,044 클록 사이클이 소요되며, B-571 슈도랜덤 타원곡선의 스칼라 곱셈에는 25,040,625 사이클이 소요된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.247-249
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• 2017

NIST에서 표준으로 정의된 P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 타원곡선 상의 스칼라 곱셈(scalar multiplication) 연산을 지원하는 Scalable 타원곡선 암호(Elliptic Curve Cryptography; ECC) 프로세서의 설계에 대해 기술한다. 투영(projective) 좌표계를 이용하여 하드웨어 자원 소모가 큰 나눗셈 연산을 제거하였으며, GF(p) 상의 덧셈, 뺄셈, 곱셈 등의 유한체 연산을 지원한다. 워드 기반 몽고메리 곱셈기를 이용하여 다양한 크기의 필드(field)에서 고정된 하드웨어 자원을 통하여 곱셈 연산을 수행하도록 하였으며, 필드의 크기에 따라 연산 사이클이 증가하거나 감소한다. 설계된 Scalable ECC 프로세서는 Verilog HDL로 모델링 되었으며, Modelsim을 이용한 기능검증을 하였다. Xilinx Virtex5 FPGA 디바이스 합성결과 5,376-비트 RAM과 970 슬라이스로 구현되었으며, 최대 55 MHz의 동작 주파수를 갖는다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.511-514
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• 2019

Elliptic Curves Cryptosystem(ECC) provides the same level of security with relatively small key sizes, as compared to the traditional cryptosystems. The performance of ECC over GF(2m) and GF(p) depends on the efficiency of finite field arithmetic, especially the modular multiplication which is based on the reduction algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new modular reduction algorithm which provides high-speed ECC over NIST prime P-256. Detailed experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is about 25% faster than the previous methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.419-426
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• 2021

A high-performance elliptic curve cryptography processor (HP-ECCP) was designed to support five field sizes of 192, 224, 256, 384 and 521 bits over GF(p) defined in NIST FIPS 186-2, and it provides eight modes of arithmetic operations including ECPSM, ECPA, ECPD, MA, MS, MM, MI and MD. In order to make the HP-ECCP resistant to side-channel attacks, a modified left-to-right binary algorithm was used, in which point addition and point doubling operations are uniformly performed regardless of the Hamming weight of private key used for ECPSM. In addition, Karatsuba-Ofman multiplication algorithm (KOMA), Lazy reduction and Nikhilam division algorithms were adopted for designing high-performance modular multiplier that is the core arithmetic block for elliptic curve point operations. The HP-ECCP synthesized using a 180-nm CMOS cell library occupied 620,846 gate equivalents with a clock frequency of 67 MHz, and it was evaluated that an ECPSM with a field size of 256 bits can be computed 2,200 times per second.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1083-1091
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• 2017

This paper describes a design of cryptographic processor supporting 224-bit elliptic curves over prime field defined by NIST. Scalar point multiplication that is a core arithmetic function in elliptic curve cryptography(ECC) was implemented by adopting the modified Montgomery ladder algorithm. In order to eliminate division operations that have high computational complexity, projective coordinate was used to implement point addition and point doubling operations, which uses addition, subtraction, multiplication and squaring operations over GF(p). The final result of the scalar point multiplication is converted to affine coordinate and the inverse operation is implemented using Fermat's little theorem. The ECC processor was verified by FPGA implementation using Virtex5 device. The ECC processor synthesized using a 0.18 um CMOS cell library occupies 2.7-Kbit RAM and 27,739 gate equivalents (GEs), and the estimated maximum clock frequency is 71 MHz. One scalar point multiplication takes 1,326,985 clock cycles resulting in the computation time of 18.7 msec at the maximum clock frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.188-190
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• 2017

투영(projective) 좌표계를 이용한 스칼라 곱셈(scalar multiplication) 연산을 지원하는 224-비트 타원곡선 암호(Elliptic Curve Cryptography; ECC) 프로세서의 설계에 대해 기술한다. 소수체 GF(p)상의 덧셈, 뺄셈, 곱셈 등의 유한체 연산을 지원하며, 연산량과 하드웨어 자원소모가 큰 나눗셈 연산을 제거함으로써 하드웨어 복잡도를 감소시켰다. 수정된 Montgomery ladder 알고리듬을 이용하여 스칼라 곱셈 연산을 제어하였으며, 단순 전력분석에 보다 안전하다. 스칼라 곱셈 연산은 최대 2,615,201 클록 사이클이 소요된다. 설계된 ECC-P224 프로세서는 Xilinx ISim을 이용한 기능검증을 하였다. Xilinx Virtex5 FPGA 디바이스 합성결과 7,078 슬라이스로 구현되었으며, 최대 79 MHz에서 동작하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.515-518
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• 2019

The performance of Elliptic Curves Cryptosystem(ECC) is dominated by the modular multiplication since the elliptic curve scalar multiplication consists of the modular multiplication in projective coordinates. In this paper, we propose a new method that combines the Karatsuba-Ofman multiplication method and a new modular reduction algorithm in order to improve the performance of the modular multiplication for NIST p224 in the FIPS 186-4 standard. The proposed method leads to a running time improvement for computing the modular multiplication about 25% faster than the previous methods. The results also show that the method can reduce the arithmetic complexity by half when compared with traditional implementations on the standpoint of the modular reduction.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1470-1476
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• 2020

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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.1609-1617
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• 2019

Described in this paper is a design of hardware accelerator for implementing public-key cryptographic protocols (PKCPs) based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and RSA. It supports five elliptic curves (ECs) over GF(p) and three key lengths of RSA that are defined by NIST standard. It was designed to support four point operations over ECs and six modular arithmetic operations, making it suitable for hardware implementation of ECC- and RSA-based PKCPs. In order to achieve small-area implementation, a finite field arithmetic circuit was designed with 32-bit data-path, and it adopted word-based Montgomery multiplication algorithm, the Jacobian coordinate system for EC point operations, and the Fermat's little theorem for modular multiplicative inverse. The hardware operation was verified with FPGA device by implementing EC-DH key exchange protocol and RSA operations. It occupied 20,800 gate equivalents and 28 kbits of RAM at 50 MHz clock frequency with 180-nm CMOS cell library, and 1,503 slices and 2 BRAMs in Virtex-5 FPGA device.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.736-743
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• 2020

Modular multiplication is one of the most important arithmetic operations in public-key cryptography such as elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and RSA, and the performance of modular multiplier is a key factor influencing the performance of public-key cryptographic hardware. An efficient hardware implementation of word-based Montgomery modular multiplication algorithm is described in this paper. Our modular multiplier was designed to support eleven field sizes for prime field GF(p) and binary field GF(2k) as defined by SEC2 standard for ECC, making it suitable for lightweight hardware implementations of ECC processors. The proposed architecture employs pipeline scheme between the partial product generation and addition operation and the modular reduction operation to reduce the clock cycles required to compute modular multiplication by 50%. The hardware operation of our modular multiplier was demonstrated by FPGA verification. When synthesized with a 65-nm CMOS cell library, it was realized with 33,635 gate equivalents, and the maximum operating clock frequency was estimated at 147 MHz.