Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Constrained Devices

ISBN-13: 9783639068597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str.

Sandeep S. Kumar

Opis

This book is a step towards showing the practicability of Public Key Cryptography (PKC) and in particular Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) on low-end constrained devices like sensor nodes and RF-ID chips. The book presents the flexibility that ECC provides in the choice of parameters and algorithms at different hierarchies for efficient implementations on constrained platforms like 8-bit micro-processors. Architectural enhancements with software/hardware co-design including instruction set extensions were investigated for low-level finite field arithmetic used in ECC. Finally, a highly area opti­mized ASIC implementation of an ECC co-processor using standard 0.35um CMOS libraries is presented using an innovative arithmetic and architectural design. The book is intended for students and researchers involved in realizing practical public-key cryptographic implementations on constrained devices used in ambient intelligent (AmI) environments, sensor networks and RF-ID applications.

O autorze

Kumar Sandeep S. Sandeep Kumar is an expert in the area of applied data security in embedded systems. He completed his B.Tech and M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India in 2002 and his Ph.D.(Dr.-Ing.) from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany in 2006. Presently he is a Senior Researcher at Philips Research, Netherlands.