Binary Edwards Curves (BEC) constitute an exciting elliptic curve variation that has very interesting benefits when it comes to side channel attack resistance. However, BECs require more GF(2k) operations for a single scalar multiplication and this acts as a deterring factor for their wide adoption and standardization. In this paper, a high speed BEC scalar multiplication architecture and implementation is proposed based on a parallel design strategy of the GF(2k) operations that provides power analysis attack resistance against a variety of attacks.
['Apostolos P. Fournaris', 'Nicolas Sklavos', 'Christos Koulamas']
A High Speed Scalar Multiplier for Binary Edwards Curves