Efficient FPGA elliptic curve cryptographic processor over GF(2m)

In this paper a processor that supports elliptic curve cryptographic applications over GF (2
^m
) is proposed. The proposed structure is capable of calculating point multiplication and addition using a single coordinate to contain the point information. This compression allows for a better usage of the bandwidth resources. For the point multiplication procedure, all coordinate pre-calculations are completely avoided. This design was successful prototyped on a reconfigurable device for the field GF (2
¹⁶³
). Experimental results suggest that point multiplication can be performed in 144 mus and point affine addition in 1.02 mus. Comparing with the related work, a 5 times speedup is obtained for point addition and multiplication. The presented design offers a well balanced area-time performance when compared with existent elliptic curve point multiplication specific processors.