• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.77-83
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• 2000

This paper presents a new modular multiplier for Montgomery multiplication using iterative small carry save adder. The proposed multiplier is more flexible and suitable for long bit multiplication due to its scalable property according to design area and required computing time. We describe the word-based Montgomery algorithm and design architecture of the multiplier. Our analysis and simulation show that the proposed multiplier provides area/time tradeoffs in limited design area such as IC cards.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.57-66
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• 2004

This paper proposes the design of a 2,048-bit RSA based on RNS(residue number systems) Montgomery modular multiplier As the systems that RNS processes a fast parallel modular multiplication for a large word partitioned into small words, we introduce Montgomery reduction method(MRM)［1］based on Wallace tree modular multiplier and 33 RNS bases with 64-bit size for RNS Montgomery modular multiplication in this paper. Also, for fast RNS modular multiplication, a modified method based on Chinese remainder theorem(CRT)［2］ is presented. We have verified 2,048-bit RSA based on RNS using Samsung 0.35${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ technology and the 2,048-bit RSA is performed in 2.54㎳ at 100MHz.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.1471-1479
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• 2017

This paper describes a design of RSA public-key cryptography processor supporting key length of 2,048 bits. A modular multiplier that is core arithmetic function in RSA cryptography was designed using word-based Montgomery multiplication algorithm, and a modular exponentiation was implemented by using Left-to-Right (LR) binary exponentiation algorithm. A computation of a modular multiplication takes 8,386 clock cycles, and RSA encryption and decryption requires 185,724 and 25,561,076 clock cycles, respectively. The RSA processor was verified by FPGA implementation using Virtex5 device. The RSA cryptographic processor synthesized with 100 MHz clock frequency using a 0.18 um CMOS cell library occupies 12,540 gate equivalents (GEs) and 12 kbits memory. It was estimated that the RSA processor can operate up to 165 MHz, and the estimated time for RSA encryption and decryption operations are 1.12 ms and 154.91 ms, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.169-170
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• 2018

이진체 상의 타원곡선 B-233을 지원하는 타원곡선 암호 프로세서를 32-비트 워드기반 몽고메리 곱셈기를 이용하여 설계하였다. 스칼라 곱셈을 위해 수정된 몽고메리 래더 (Modified montgomery ladder) 알고리즘을 적용하여 단순 전력분석에 내성을 갖도록 하였으며, Lopez-Dahab 투영 좌표계와 페르마의 소정리(Fermat's little theorem)를 적용하여 하드웨어 자원 소모가 큰 나눗셈과 역원 연산을 제거하여 저면적으로 설계하였다. 설계된 ECC 프로세서는 Xilinx ISim을 이용하여 기능검증을 하였으며, $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 셀 라이브러리로 합성한 결과 100 MHz의 동작 주파수에서 9,614 GEs와 4 Kbit RAM으로 구현되었으며, 최대 동작 주파수는 125 MHz로 예측되었다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.625-633
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• 2021

This paper describes a scalable architecture for flexible hardware implementation of Montgomery modular multiplication. Our scalable modular multiplier architecture, which is based on a one-dimensional array of processing elements (PEs), performs word parallel operation and allows us to adjust computational performance and hardware complexity depending on the number of PEs used, N_PE. Based on the proposed architecture, we designed a scalable Montgomery modular multiplier (sMM) core supporting eight field sizes defined in SEC2. Synthesized with 180-nm CMOS cell library, our sMM core was implemented with 38,317 gate equivalents (GEs) and 139,390 GEs for N_PE=1 and N_PE=8, respectively. When operating with a 100 MHz clock, it was evaluated that 256-bit modular multiplications of 0.57 million times/sec for N_PE=1 and 3.5 million times/sec for N_PE=8 can be computed. Our sMM core has the advantage of enabling an optimized implementation by determining the number of PEs to be used in consideration of computational performance and hardware resources required in application fields, and it can be used as an IP (intellectual property) in scalable hardware design of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.247-249
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• 2017

NIST에서 표준으로 정의된 P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 타원곡선 상의 스칼라 곱셈(scalar multiplication) 연산을 지원하는 Scalable 타원곡선 암호(Elliptic Curve Cryptography; ECC) 프로세서의 설계에 대해 기술한다. 투영(projective) 좌표계를 이용하여 하드웨어 자원 소모가 큰 나눗셈 연산을 제거하였으며, GF(p) 상의 덧셈, 뺄셈, 곱셈 등의 유한체 연산을 지원한다. 워드 기반 몽고메리 곱셈기를 이용하여 다양한 크기의 필드(field)에서 고정된 하드웨어 자원을 통하여 곱셈 연산을 수행하도록 하였으며, 필드의 크기에 따라 연산 사이클이 증가하거나 감소한다. 설계된 Scalable ECC 프로세서는 Verilog HDL로 모델링 되었으며, Modelsim을 이용한 기능검증을 하였다. Xilinx Virtex5 FPGA 디바이스 합성결과 5,376-비트 RAM과 970 슬라이스로 구현되었으며, 최대 55 MHz의 동작 주파수를 갖는다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.58-67
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• 2019

A design of an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) processor that supports both pseudo-random curves and Koblitz curves over $GF(2^m)$ defined by the NIST standard is described in this paper. A finite field arithmetic circuit based on a word-based Montgomery multiplier was designed to support five key lengths using a datapath of fixed size, as well as to achieve a lightweight hardware implementation. In addition, Lopez-Dahab's coordinate system was adopted to remove the finite field division operation. The ECC processor was implemented in the FPGA verification platform and the hardware operation was verified by Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange protocol operation. The ECC processor that was synthesized with a 180-nm CMOS cell library occupied 10,674 gate equivalents (GEs) and a dual-port RAM of 9 kbits, and the maximum clock frequency was estimated at 154 MHz. The scalar multiplication operation over the 223-bit pseudo-random elliptic curve takes 1,112,221 clock cycles and has a throughput of 32.3 kbps.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.174-179
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• 2021

An Edwards curve cryptography (EdCC) core supporting point scalar multiplication (PSM) on Edwards curves of Edwards25519 and Edwards448 was designed. For area-efficient implementation, finite field multiplier based on word-based Montgomery multiplication algorithm was designed, and the extended twisted Edwards coordinates system was adopted to implement point operations without division operation. As a result of synthesizing the EdCC core with 100 MHz clock, it was implemented with 24,073 equivalent gates and 11 kbits RAM, and the maximum operating frequency was estimated to be 285 MHz. The evaluation results show that the EdCC core can compute 299 and 66 PSMs per second on Edwards25519 and Edwards448 curves, respectively. Compared to the ECC core with similar structure, the number of clock cycles required for 256-bit PSM was reduced by about 60%, resulting in 7.3 times improvement in computational performance.