• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.1
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• pp.32-40
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a high-speed modular multiplication algorithm which revises conventional Montgomery's algorithm. A hardware architecture is also presented to implement 1024-bit RSA cryptosystem for digital signature based on the proposed algorithm. Each iteration in our approach requires only one addition operation for two n-bit integers, while that in Montgomery's requires two addition operations for three n-bit integers. The system which is modelled in VHDL(VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is simulated in functionally through the use of $Synopsys^{TM}$ tools on a Axil-320 workstation, where Altera 10K libraries are used for logic synthesis. For FPGA implementation, timing simulation is also performed through the use of Altera MAX + PLUS II. Experimental results show that the proposed RSA cryptosystem has distinctive features that not only computation speed is faster but also hardware area is drastically reduced compared to conventional approach.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.1055-1063
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• 1999

공개키 암호화 시스템에서 주된 연산은 512비트 이상의 큰 수에 의한 모듈러 지수 연산으로 표현되며, 이 연산은 내부적으로 모듈러 곱셈을 반복적으로 수행함으로써 계산된다. 본 논문에서는 Montgomery 알고리즘을 분석하여 right-to-left 방식의 모듈러 지수 연산에서 공통으로 계산 가능한 부분을 이용하여 모듈러 제곱과 모듈러 곱셈을 동시에 수행하는 선형 시스톨릭 어레이를 설계한다. 설계된 시스톨릭 어레이는 VLSI 칩과 같은 하드웨어로 구현함으로써 IC 카드나 smart 카드에 이용될 수 있다.Abstract The main operation of the public-key cryptographic system is represented the modular exponentiation containing 512 or more bits and computed by performing the repetitive modular multiplications. In this paper, we analyze Montgomery algorithm and design the linear systolic array for performing modular multiplication and modular squaring simultaneously using the computable part in common in right-to-left modular exponentiation. The systolic array presented in this paper could be designed on VLSI hardware and used in IC and smart card.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.100-108
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• 2018

This paper describes a design of scalable RSA public-key cryptography processor supporting four key lengths of 512/1,024/2,048/3,072 bits. The modular multiplier that is a core arithmetic block for RSA crypto-system was designed with 32-bit datapath, which is based on the CIOS (Coarsely Integrated Operand Scanning) Montgomery modular multiplication algorithm. The modular exponentiation was implemented by using L-R binary exponentiation algorithm. The scalable RSA crypto-processor was verified by FPGA implementation using Virtex-5 device, and it takes 456,051/3,496347/26,011,947/88,112,770 clock cycles for RSA computation for the key lengths of 512/1,024/2,048/3,072 bits. The RSA crypto-processor synthesized with a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS cell library occupies 10,672 gate equivalent (GE) and a memory bank of $6{\times}3,072$ bits. The estimated maximum clock frequency is 147 MHz, and the RSA decryption takes 3.1/23.8/177/599.4 msec for key lengths of 512/1,024/2,048/3,072 bits.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.17-28
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• 2024

As listed as one of the most important requirements for Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization process by National Institute of Standards and Technology, the resistance to various side-channel attacks is considered very critical in deploying cryptosystems in practice. In fact, cryptosystems can easily be broken by side-channel attacks, even though they are considered to be secure in the mathematical point of view. The timing attack(TA) and the simple power analysis attack(SPA) are such side-channel attack methods which can reveal sensitive information by analyzing the timing behavior or the power consumption pattern of cryptographic operations. Thus, appropriate measures against such attacks must carefully be considered in the early stage of cryptosystem's implementation process. The Montgomery multiplier is a commonly used and classical gadget in implementing big-number-based cryptosystems including RSA and ECC. And, as recently proposed as an alternative of building blocks for implementing post quantum cryptography such as lattice-based cryptography, the big-number multiplier including the Montgomery multiplier still plays a role in modern cryptography. However, in spite of its effectiveness and wide-adoption, the multiplier is known to be vulnerable to TA and SPA. And this paper proposes a new countermeasure for the Montgomery multiplier against TA and SPA. Briefly speaking, the new measure first represents a multiplication operand without 0 digits, so the resulting multiplication operation behaves in a very regular manner. Also, the new algorithm removes the extra final reduction (which is intrinsic to the modular multiplication) to make the resulting multiplier more timing-independent. Consequently, the resulting multiplier operates in constant time so that it totally removes any TA and SPA vulnerabilities. Since the proposed method can process multi bits at a time, implementers can also trade-off the performance with the resource usage to get desirable implementation characteristics.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.3-11
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• 2000

In this paper, we design modular multiplication systolic array and exponentiation processor having n bits message black. This processor uses Montgomery algorithm and LR binary square and multiply algorithm. This processor consists of 3 divisions, which are control unit that controls computation sequence, 5 shift registers that save input and output values, and modular exponentiation unit. To verify the designed exponetion processor, we model and simulate it using VHDL and MAX+PLUS II. Consider a message block length of n=512, the time needed for encrypting or decrypting such a block is 59.5ms. This modular exponentiation unit is used to RSA cryptosystem.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.11-18
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• 2017

Finite field arithmetic has been extensively used in error correcting codes and cryptography. Low-complexity and high-speed designs for finite field arithmetic are needed to meet the demands of wider bandwidth, better security and higher portability for personal communication device. In particular, cryptosystems in GF($2^m$) usually require computing exponentiation, division, and multiplicative inverse, which are very costly operations. These operations can be performed by computing modular AB multiplications or modular $AB^2$ multiplications. To compute these time-consuming operations, using $AB^2$ multiplications is more efficient than AB multiplications. Thus, there are needs for an efficient $AB^2$ multiplier architecture. In this paper, we propose a low latency Montgomery $AB^2$ multiplier using redundant representation over GF($2^m$). The proposed $AB^2$ multiplier has less space and time complexities compared to related multipliers. As compared to the corresponding existing structures, the proposed $AB^2$ multiplier saves at least 18% area, 50% time, and 59% area-time (AT) complexity. Accordingly, it is well suited for VLSI implementation and can be easily applied as a basic component for computing complex operations over finite field, such as exponentiation, division, and multiplicative inverse.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.33-41
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• 2006

RSA cryptosystem is of great use in systems such as IC card, mobile system, WPKI, electronic cash, SET, SSL and so on. RSA is performed through modular exponentiation. It is well known that the Montgomery multiplier is efficient in general. The critical path delay of the Montgomery multiplier depends on an addition of three operands, the problem that is taken over carry-propagation makes big influence at an efficiency of Montgomery Multiplier. Recently, the use of the Carry Save Adder(CSA) which has no carry propagation has worked McIvor et al. proposed a couple of Montgomery multiplication for an ideal exponentiation, the one and the other are made of 3 steps and 2 steps of CSA respectively. The latter one is more efficient than the first one in terms of the time complexity. In this paper, for faster operation than the latter one we use binary signed-digit(SD) number system which has no carry-propagation. We propose a new redundant binary adder(RBA) that performs the addition between two binary SD numbers and apply to Montgomery multiplier. Instead of the binary SD addition rule using in existing RBAs, we propose a new addition rule. And, we construct and simulate to the proposed adder using gates provided from SAMSUNG STD130 $0.18{\mu}m$ 1.8V CMOS Standard Cell Library. The result is faster by a minimum 12.46% in terms of the time complexity than McIvor's 2 method and existing RBAs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.849-852
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 RSA 암호 시스템의 Montgomery 모듈러 곱셈 알고리듬을 개선한 고속 모듈러 곱셈 알고리듬을 제안하고, Hybrid 구조의 가산기를 사용한 고속 모듈러 곱셈 알고리듬의 설계에 관하여 기술한다. 기존 Montgomery 알고리듬에서는 부분합계산시 2번의 덧셈연산이 요구되지만 제안된 방법에서는 단지 1번의 덧셈 연산으로 부분 합을 계산할 수 있다. 또한 덧셈 연산 속도를 향상시키기 위하여 Hybrid 구조의 가산기를 제안한다. Hybrid 가산기는 기존의 CLA(Carry Look-ahad Adder)와 CSA(Carry Select Adder)알고리듬을 혼합한 구조를 기본으로 하고 있다. 제안된 고속 모듈러 곰셈기는 VHDL(VHSIC Hardware Description Language)을 이용하여 모델링하였고, $Synopsys^{TM}$사의 Design Analyzer를 이용하여 논리합성(Altera 10K lib. 이용)을 수행하였다. 성능 분석을 위하여 Altera MAX+ PLUS II 상에서 타이밍 시뮬레이션을 수행하였고, 실험을 통하여 제안한 방법의 효율성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.406-419
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• 1999

RSA와 같은 공개키 암호시스템(public-key cryptography system)에서는 512 비트 또는 그 이상 큰수의 모듈러 곱셈 연산을 수행하여야한다. 본 논문에서는 Montgomery 알고리즘을 이용하여 모듈러 곱셈을 수행하는 두 가지의 고정-크기 선형 시스톨릭 어레이를 설계하고 분석한다. 제안된 임의의 고정-크기 선형 시스톨릭 어레이와 파이프라인된 고정-크기 선형 시스톨릭 어레이는 최적의 문제-크기 선형 시스톨릭 어레이로부터 LPGS(Locally Parallel Globally Sequential)분할방법을 적용하여 설계한다. VHDL 시뮬레이션 결과, 밴드이 크기를 4로 하여 분할 시 문제-크기 어레이와 비교하면 수행시간의 지연이 없었으며,어레이의 크기도 1/4로 줄일 수 있었다. 제안된 시스톨릭 어레이는 크기에 제한을 갖는 스마트카드 등에 이용될수 있을 것이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.12C
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• pp.1739-1747
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• 2004

In this paper, an efficient radix-4 systolic VLSI architecture for RSA public-key cryptosystem is proposed. Due to the simple operation of iterations and the efficient systolic mapping, the proposed architecture computes an n-bit modular exponentiation in n$^{2}$ clock cycles since two modular multiplications for M$_{i}$ and P$_{i}$ in each exponentiation process are interleaved, so that the hardware is fully utilized. We encode the exponent using Radix-4. SD (Signed Digit) number system to reduce the number of modular multiplications for RSA cryptography. Therefore about 20% of NZ (non-zero) digits in the exponent are reduced. Compared to conventional approaches, the proposed architecture shows shorter period to complete the RSA while requiring relatively less hardware resources. The proposed RSA architecture based on the modified Montgomery algorithm has locality, regularity, and scalability suitable for VLSI implementation.