• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6C
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• pp.625-631
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• 2002

This paper presents a MSB-first digit-serial systolic array for computing modular multiplication of A(x)B(x) mod G(x) in finite fields $GF(2^m)$. From the MSB-first multiplication algorithm in $GF(2^m)$, we obtain a new data dependence graph and design an efficient digit-serial systolic multiplier. For circuit synthesis, we obtain VHDL code for multiplier, If input data come in continuously, the implemented multiplier can produce multiplication results at a rate of one every [m/L] clock cycles, where L is the selected digit size. The analysis results show that the proposed architecture leads to a reduction of computational delay time and it has much more simple structure than existing digit-serial systolic multiplier. Furthermore, since the propose architecture has the features of unidirectional data flow and regularity, it shows good extension characteristics with respect to m and L.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.87-94
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• 2002

This study presents an MSB(Most Significant Bit) Int multiplier using cellular automata, along with a new MSB first multiplication algorithm over GF($2^m$). The proposed architecture has the advantage of high regularity and a reduced latency based on combining the characteristics of a PBCA(Periodic Boundary Cellular Automata) and with the property of irreducible AOP(All One Polynomial). The proposed multiplier can be used in the effectual hardware design of exponentiation architecture for public-key cryptosystem.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.1_2
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• pp.62-68
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• 2006

The important arithmetic operations over finite fields include multiplication and exponentiation. An exponentiation operation can be implemented using a series of squaring and multiplication operations over GF($2^m$) using the binary method. Hence, it is important to develop a fast algorithm and efficient hardware for multiplication. This paper presents an efficient bit-serial systolic array for MSB-first multiplication in GF($2^m$) based on the polynomial representation. As compared to the related multipliers, the proposed systolic multiplier gains advantages in terms of input-pin and area-time complexity. Furthermore, it has regularity, modularity, and unidirectional data flow, and thus is well suited to VLSI implementation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.7A
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• pp.547-556
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• 2003

This paper proposes a novel arithmetic unit over GF(2$^{m}$ ) for low-area elliptic curve cryptographic processor. The proposed arithmetic unit, which is linear feed back shift register (LFSR) architecture, is designed by using hardware sharing between the binary GCD algorithm and the most significant bit (MSB)-first multiplication scheme, and it can perform both division and multiplication in GF(2$^{m}$ ). In other word, the proposed architecture produce division results at a rate of one per 2m-1 clock cycles in division mode and multiplication results at a rate of one per m clock cycles in multiplication mode. Analysis shows that the computational delay time of the proposed architecture, for division, is less than previously proposed dividers with reduced transistor counts. In addition, since the proposed arithmetic unit does not restrict the choice of irreducible polynomials and has regularity and modularity, it provides a high flexibility and scalability with respect to the field size m. Therefore, the proposed novel architecture can be used for both division and multiplication circuit of elliptic curve cryptographic processor. Specially, it is well suited to low-area applications such as smart cards and hand held devices.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.646-648
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 RSA 암호 알고리즘의 핵심 계산 과정인 모듈로 곱셈 연산의 효율적인 하드웨어 구현을 위해 새로운 알고리즘과 하드웨어 구조를 제시한다. 기존의 몽고메리 알고리즘이 LSB 우선 방법을 사용한 것과는 달리 여기서는 MSB 우선 방법을 사용하였으며, RSA 암호 시스템에서 키가 일정 기간 동안 변하지 않고 유지된다는 점에 착안해 계수(Modulus)에 대한 보수(Complements)를 미리 계산해 놓고 이를 이용하여 모듈로 감소 처리를 간단히 덧셈으로 치환하도록 하였다. 보수들을 저장할 몇 개의 레지스터와 그들 중 하나를 선택하기 위한 간단한 멀티플렉서(Multiplexer)만을 추가함으로써 몽고메리 알고리즘이 안고 있는 홀수 계수 조건과 사후 연산이라는 번거로움을 없앨 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘은 하드웨어 복잡도가 몽고메리 알고리즘과 비슷하며 그 내부 계산 구조를 보여주는 DG(Dependence Graph)의 지역 연결성 (Local Connection), 모듈성(Modularity), 데이터의 규칙적 종속성 (Regular Data Dependency)등으로 인한 실시간 고속 처리를 위한 VLSI 구현에 적합하다.