This article describes low-cost techniques for accelerating the ECC and RSA public-key cryptosystems on general-purpose processor architectures. A prototype based on a Sparc CPU data path shows a clear performance advantage of ECC over RSA.
Index Terms:
Cryptographic controls, Public key cryptosystems, Processor Architectures
Citation:
Hans Eberle, Sheueling Shantz, Vipul Gupta, Nils Gura, Leonard Rarick, Lawrence Spracklen, "Accelerating Next-Generation Public-Key Cryptosystems on General-Purpose CPUs," IEEE Micro, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 52-59, Mar./Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MM.2005.24