42 research outputs found
Software Implementation of Genus-2 Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems Over Prime Fields
This paper describes the system parameters and software implementation of a HECDSA cryptosystem based on genus-2 hyperelliptic curves over prime fields. We show how to reduce the computational complexity for special cases and compare the given cryptosystem with the well-known ECDSA cryptosystem based on elliptic curves
Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems: Closing the Performance Gap to Elliptic Curves (Update)
For most of the time since they were proposed, it was widely
believed that hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems (HECC) carry a
substantial performance penalty compared to elliptic curve
cryptosystems (ECC) and are, thus, not too attractive for
practical applications. Only quite recently improvements have been
made, mainly restricted to curves of genus 2. The work at hand
advances the state-of-the-art considerably in several aspects.
First, we generalize and improve the closed formulae for the group
operation of genus 3 for HEC defined over fields of characteristic
two. For certain curves we achieve over 50% complexity improvement
compared to the best previously published results. Second, we
introduce a new complexity metric for ECC and HECC defined over
characteristic two fields which allow performance comparisons of
practical relevance. It can be shown that the HECC performance is
in the range of the performance of an ECC; for specific
parameters HECC can even possess a lower complexity than an ECC at
the same security level. Third, we describe the first
implementation of a HEC cryptosystem on an embedded (ARM7)
processor. Since HEC are particularly attractive for constrained
environments, such a case study should be of relevance
Understanding Cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners
Cryptography is now ubiquitous – moving beyond the traditional environments, such as government communications and banking systems, we see cryptographic techniques realized in Web browsers, e-mail programs, cell phones, manufacturing systems, embedded software, smart buildings, cars, and even medical implants. Today\u27s designers need a comprehensive understanding of applied cryptography.
After an introduction to cryptography and data security, the authors explain the main techniques in modern cryptography, with chapters addressing stream ciphers, the Data Encryption Standard (DES) and 3DES, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), block ciphers, the RSA cryptosystem, public-key cryptosystems based on the discrete logarithm problem, elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC), digital signatures, hash functions, Message Authentication Codes (MACs), and methods for key establishment, including certificates and public-key infrastructure (PKI). Throughout the book, the authors focus on communicating the essentials and keeping the mathematics to a minimum, and they move quickly from explaining the foundations to describing practical implementations, including recent topics such as lightweight ciphers for RFIDs and mobile devices, and current key-length recommendations.
The authors have considerable experience teaching applied cryptography to engineering and computer science students and to professionals, and they make extensive use of examples, problems, and chapter reviews, while the book’s website offers slides, projects and links to further resources. This is a suitable textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses and also for self-study by engineers
High Performance Arithmetic for Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems of Genus Two
Nowadays, there exists a manifold variety of cryptographic applications: from low level embedded crypto implementations up to high end cryptographic engines for servers. The latter require a exible implementation of a variety of cryptographic primitives in order to be capable of communicating with several clients. On the other hand, on the client it only requires an implementation of one speci c algorithm with xed parameters such as a xed eld size or xed curve parameters if using ECC/ HECC. In particular for embedded environments like PDAs or mobile communication devices, xing these parameters can be crucial regarding speed and power consumption. In this contribution, we propose a highly ecient algorithm for a hyperelliptic curve cryptosystem of genus two, well suited for these constraint devices