Prime Field ECDSA Signature Processing for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems

Growing ubiquity and safety relevance of embedded systems strengthen the need to protect their functionality against malicious attacks. Communication and system authentication by digital signature schemes is a major issue in securing such systems. This contribution presents a complete ECDSA signatur...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Glas, Oliver Sander, Vitali Stuckert, Klaus D. Müller-Glaser, Jürgen Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/836460
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description Growing ubiquity and safety relevance of embedded systems strengthen the need to protect their functionality against malicious attacks. Communication and system authentication by digital signature schemes is a major issue in securing such systems. This contribution presents a complete ECDSA signature processing system over prime fields for bit lengths of up to 256 on reconfigurable hardware. By using dedicated hardware implementation, the performance can be improved by up to two orders of magnitude compared to microcontroller implementations. The flexible system is tailored to serve as an autonomous subsystem providing authentication transparent for any application. Integration into a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system is shown as an application example.
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spelling doaj-art-a34d26bf4b5c4170bda8470498ee277d2025-02-03T01:23:41ZengWileyInternational Journal of Reconfigurable Computing1687-71951687-72092011-01-01201110.1155/2011/836460836460Prime Field ECDSA Signature Processing for Reconfigurable Embedded SystemsBenjamin Glas0Oliver Sander1Vitali Stuckert2Klaus D. Müller-Glaser3Jürgen Becker4Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV), 76131 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV), 76131 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV), 76131 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV), 76131 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, GermanyInstitute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV), 76131 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, GermanyGrowing ubiquity and safety relevance of embedded systems strengthen the need to protect their functionality against malicious attacks. Communication and system authentication by digital signature schemes is a major issue in securing such systems. This contribution presents a complete ECDSA signature processing system over prime fields for bit lengths of up to 256 on reconfigurable hardware. By using dedicated hardware implementation, the performance can be improved by up to two orders of magnitude compared to microcontroller implementations. The flexible system is tailored to serve as an autonomous subsystem providing authentication transparent for any application. Integration into a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system is shown as an application example.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/836460
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