| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/C522869/1 |
| Title: |
Performance and Security Aspects of Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
| Principal Investigator: |
Page, Dr D |
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Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
01 November 2005 |
Ends: |
30 April 2008 |
Value (£): |
123,535
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| Fundamentals of Computing |
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There are now a number of cryptographic protocols based on elliptic curves, both so-called traditional Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and the new Identity Based Encryption (IBE). This proposal aims to investigate the efficient and secure implementation of such protocols on the diverse range of processors that one can envisage being used in next generation computing devices. The main issue with constrained devices such as smart-cards is that their environment is hostile, hence they are more open to side channel analysis and fault analysis, yet they are also very limited in computational ability and memory space. Conversely, the challenges provided by high-end servers require high throughput given a large number of independent transactions, even if this is at a high unit cost in terms of device characteristics.Current research in the area has focussed almost entirely on traditional ECC, in particular there is no known research into the side-channel security of IBE. In order to provide high performance, secure solutions to the problems listed above, this proposal aims to take a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to the subject. That is, we hope to consider aspects of arithmetic and implementation level performance optimisation while also addressing issues of physical security at the same time.
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http://www.bris.ac.uk |