• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.158-160
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• 2016

전자서명(ECDSA), 키 교환(ECDH) 등에 사용되는 233-비트 타원곡선 암호(Elliptic Curve Cryptography; ECC) 프로세서의 설계에 대해 기술한다. $GF(2^{333})$ 상의 덧셈, 곱셈, 나눗셈 등의 유한체 연산을 지원하며, 하드웨어 자원 소모가 적은 쉬프트 연산과 XOR 연산만을 이용하여 구현하였다. 스칼라 곱셈은 modified montgomery ladder 알고리듬을 이용하여 구현하였으며, 정수 k의 정보를 노출하지 않고, 단순 전력분석에 보다 안전하다. 스칼라 곱셈 연산은 최대 490,699 클록 사이클이 소요된다. 설계된 ECC 프로세서는 Xilinx ISim을 이용한 시뮬레이션 결과값과 한국인터넷진흥원(KISA)의 참조 구현 값을 비교하여 정상 동작함을 확인하였다. Xilinx Virtex5 XC5VSX95T FPGA 디바이스 합성결과 1,576 슬라이스로 구현되었으며, 189 MHz의 최대 동작주파수를 갖는다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.791-801
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• 2011

Security in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an upcoming research field which is quite different from traditional network security mechanisms. Many applications are dependent on the secure operation of a WSN, and have serious effects if the network is disrupted. Therefore, it is necessary to protect communication between sensor nodes. Key management plays an essential role in achieving security in WSNs. To achieve security, various key predistribution schemes have been proposed in the literature. A secure key management technique in WSN is a real challenging task. In this paper, a novel approach to the above problem by making use of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is presented. In the proposed scheme, a seed key, which is a distinct point in an elliptic curve, is assigned to each sensor node prior to its deployment. The private key ring for each sensor node is generated using the point doubling mathematical operation over the seed key. When two nodes share a common private key, then a link is established between these two nodes. By suitably choosing the value of the prime field and key ring size, the probability of two nodes sharing the same private key could be increased. The performance is evaluated in terms of connectivity and resilience against node capture. The results show that the performance is better for the proposed scheme with ECC compared to the other basic schemes.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.522-531
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• 2018

A public-key cryptography processor EC-RSA was designed, which integrates a 224-bit prime field elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) defined in the FIPS 186-2 as well as RSA with 2048-bit key length into a single hardware structure. A finite field arithmetic core used in both scalar multiplication for ECC and exponentiation for RSA was designed with 32-bit data-path. A lightweight implementation was achieved by an efficient hardware sharing of the finite field arithmetic core and internal memory for ECC and RSA operations. The EC-RSA processor was verified by FPGA implementation. It occupied 11,779 gate equivalents (GEs) and 14 kbit RAM synthesized with a 180-nm CMOS cell library and the estimated maximum clock frequency was 133 MHz. It takes 867,746 clock cycles for ECC scalar multiplication resulting in the estimated throughput of 34.3 kbps, and takes 26,149,013 clock cycles for RSA decryption resulting in the estimated throughput of 10.4 kbps.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.736-743
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• 2020

Modular multiplication is one of the most important arithmetic operations in public-key cryptography such as elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and RSA, and the performance of modular multiplier is a key factor influencing the performance of public-key cryptographic hardware. An efficient hardware implementation of word-based Montgomery modular multiplication algorithm is described in this paper. Our modular multiplier was designed to support eleven field sizes for prime field GF(p) and binary field GF(2k) as defined by SEC2 standard for ECC, making it suitable for lightweight hardware implementations of ECC processors. The proposed architecture employs pipeline scheme between the partial product generation and addition operation and the modular reduction operation to reduce the clock cycles required to compute modular multiplication by 50%. The hardware operation of our modular multiplier was demonstrated by FPGA verification. When synthesized with a 65-nm CMOS cell library, it was realized with 33,635 gate equivalents, and the maximum operating clock frequency was estimated at 147 MHz.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.190-192
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• 2018

This paper describes a design of an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) processor that supports five pseudo-random curves and five Koblitz curves over binary field defined by the NIST standard. The ECC processor adopts the Lopez-Dahab projective coordinate system so that scalar multiplication is computed with modular multiplier and XORs. A word-based Montgomery multiplier of $32-b{\times}32-b$ was designed to implement ECCs of various key lengths using fixed-size hardware. The hardware operation of the ECC processor was verified by FPGA implementation. The ECC processor synthesized using a 0.18-um CMOS cell library occupies 10,674 gate equivalents (GEs) and 9 Kbits RAM at 100 MHz, and the estimated maximum clock frequency is 154 MHz.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.165-170
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• 2020

As the IoT (Internet of Things) era is activated, a lot of information including personal information is being transmitted through IoT devices. For information protection, it is important to perform cryptography communication, and it is required to use a lightweight security protocol due to performance limitations. Currently, most of the encryption methods used in the security protocol use RSA and ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography). However, if a high performance quantum computer is developed and the Shor algorithm is used, it can no longer be used because it can easily solve the stability problems based on the previous RSA and ECC. Therefore, in this paper, we designed a security protocol that is resistant to the computational power of quantum computers. The code-based crypto ROLLO, which is undergoing the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) post quantum cryptography standardization, was used, and a hash and XOR computation with low computational consumption were used for mutual communication between IoT devices. Finally, a comparative analysis and safety analysis of the proposed protocol and the existing protocol were performed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.795-800
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• 2012

Recently, as communication is evolved by leaps and bounds through wired/wireless networks, variety of services are routinely made through communication networks. Accordingly, technology that is for protecting data and personal information is required essentially, and study of security technology is actively being make progress to solve these information protection problems. In this paper, to expand selection scope of the key of elliptic curve cryptography, arithmetic items of real number based elliptic curve algorithm among various cryptographic algorithms was studied. The result of an experiment, we could know that elliptic curve cryptography using the real number can choose more various keys than existing elliptic curve cryptography using integer and implement securer cryptographic system.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.5790-5795
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• 2014

Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is an extremely important part of information protection systems because it has outstanding safety among public key encryption algorithms. On the other hand, as ECC cannot obtain accurate values using a real number field because of the slow calculation and errors from rounding off, studies of ECC have focused on a finite field. If ECC can be extended to the real number field, more diverse keys can be selected compared to ECC only based on a finite field. Accordingly, in this paper, a method for constructing a cryptographic system with a high degree of safety is proposed through the diversification of keys selected by the user based on the operant extension method instead of extracting keys only using integer values.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.469-472
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• 2003

The computational cost of encryption is a barrier to wider application of a variety of data security protocols. Virtually all research on Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC) provides evidence to suggest that ECC can provide a family of encryption algorithms that implementation than do current widely used methods. This efficiency is obtained since ECC allows much shorter key lengths for equivalent levels of security. This paper suggests how improvements in execution of ECC algorithms can be obtained by changing the representation of the elements of the finite field of the ECC algorithm. Specifically, this research compares the time complexity of ECC computation eve. a variety of finite fields with elements expressed in the polynomial basis(PB) and normal basis(NB).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.269-271
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• 2005

EMV was formed in February 1999 by Europay International, MasterCard International and Visa International to manage, maintain and enhance the EMV Integrated Circuit Card Specifications for Payment Systems as technology advances and the implementation of chip card programs become more prevalent. The formation of EMV ensures that single terminal and card approval processes are developed at a level that will allow cross payment system interoperability through compliance with the EMV specifications. A credit card environment of the domestic market adopted the standard Local-EMV to have the compatibility with EMV international standard and the EMV migration have been carried out b,# the step-by-step process. It may be possible to adopt various kinds of cryptographic algorithms, however, RSA public key algorithm is currently used. In this paper, as a public key algorithm for the authentication process, Elliptic Curve Cryptographic algorithm is applied to the EMV process. Implementation results is shown. and the possible changes necessary to accommodate Elliptic Curve Cryrtography is proposed.