Montgomery modular multiplication in the residue number system （RNS） can be applied for elliptic curve cryptography. In this work, unified modular multipliers over generalized Mersenne numbers are proposed for RNS M...Montgomery modular multiplication in the residue number system （RNS） can be applied for elliptic curve cryptography. In this work, unified modular multipliers over generalized Mersenne numbers are proposed for RNS Montgomery modular multiplication, which enables efficient elliptic curve point multiplication （ECPM）. Meanwhile, the elliptic curve arithmetic with ECPM is performed by mixed coordinates and adjusted for hardware implementation. In addition, the conversion between RNS and the binary number system is also discussed. Compared with the results in the literature, our hardware architecture for ECPM demonstrates high performance. A 256-bit ECPM in Xilinx XC2VP100 field programmable gate array device （FPGA） can be performed in 1.44 ms, costing 22147 slices, 45 dedicated multipliers, and 8.25K bits of random access memories （RAMs）.展开更多
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文摘Montgomery modular multiplication in the residue number system （RNS） can be applied for elliptic curve cryptography. In this work, unified modular multipliers over generalized Mersenne numbers are proposed for RNS Montgomery modular multiplication, which enables efficient elliptic curve point multiplication （ECPM）. Meanwhile, the elliptic curve arithmetic with ECPM is performed by mixed coordinates and adjusted for hardware implementation. In addition, the conversion between RNS and the binary number system is also discussed. Compared with the results in the literature, our hardware architecture for ECPM demonstrates high performance. A 256-bit ECPM in Xilinx XC2VP100 field programmable gate array device （FPGA） can be performed in 1.44 ms, costing 22147 slices, 45 dedicated multipliers, and 8.25K bits of random access memories （RAMs）.
