A workload characterization of elliptic curve cryptography methods in embedded environments

Branovic, Irina; Giorgi, Roberto; Martinelli, Enrico

doi:10.1145/1024295.1024299

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“…We use benchmarks from several benchmark suites for embedded systems: MiBench [17], MediaBench [22], and Basicrypt [6]. Table 2 lists benchmarks, their descriptions, and the number of executed instructions, while Table 2 gives the number of I-cache misses per 1000 instructions.…”

Section: Experimental Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Hardware support for code integrity in embedded processors

Milenković

Jovanov

2005

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems

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Computer security becomes increasingly important with continual growth of the number of interconnected computing platforms. Moreover, as capabilities of embedded processors increase, the applications running on these systems also grow in size and complexity, and so does the number of security vulnerabilities. Attacks that impair code integrity by injecting and executing malicious code are one of the major security issues. This problem can be addressed at different levels, from more secure software and operating systems, down to solutions that require hardware support. Most of the existing techniques tackle the problem of security flaws at the software level, but this approach lacks generality and often induces prohibitive overhead in performance and cost, or generates a significant number of false alarms. On the other hand, a further increase in the number of transistors on a single chip enables integrated hardware support for functions that formerly were restricted to the software domain. Hardwaresupported defense techniques have the potential to be more general and more efficient than solely software solutions. This paper proposes four new architectural extensions to ensure complete run-time code integrity using instruction block signature verification. The experimental analysis shows that the proposed techniques have low performance and energy overhead. In addition, the proposed mechanism has low hardware complexity, and does not impose either changes to the compiler or changes to the existing instruction set architecture.

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Section: Experimental Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Hardware support for code integrity in embedded processors

Milenković

Jovanov

2005

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems

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“…The MQQ with a 160-bit key obtains the same security level of the RSA with a 1024-bit key and ECC with 192 bits. Using the data provided by Table 1, taken from Branovic et al (2004), it is possible to notice.…”

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Impact of Asymmetric Encryption Algorithms in a VANET

Moreno¹,

Buarque²,

Natan³

et al. 2015

Journal of Computer Science

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“…However, as many permutations exist, it is more practical to apply a benchmark instead of theoretical research. This will be done by measuring the process of the entire transaction, similar to how it has been done previously to standalone ECC [25,26]. Consequently, measurements of key generation, encryption, and decryption will follow.…”

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“…Seeing the relevance of the work of Gura [25] and Branovic [26] it is reasonable to refresh their work by adding the newly found combinations to their results. Additionally, as the Internet of Things was not as popular then as it was now [3], the efficiency of ECC was not yet placed in the context of the IoT.…”

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A Comparative Analysis of the Computation Cost and Energy Consumption of Relevant Curves of ECC Presented in Literature

El-Hajj

Mulder

2023

IJECER

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With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming expo-nentially more prevalent, the need for lightweight cryptography functions increases simultaneously. Namely, IoT end devices are mostly limited by their resource-constrained capabilities and therefore cannot rely on heavyweight cryptographic algorithms such as Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) or Diffie-Hellman (DH) for security. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) offers a more lightweight alternative by being based on a mathematical prob-lem named the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP) which is not known to be solvable in sub-exponential time. Within the field of ECC, many different curve types exist following various standards for this protocol. In this paper, the energy consumption and time consumption for key generation, encryption, and decryption are measured within the ElGamal protocol using ECC for the various curves. To measure this, a Raspberry Pi 4B and a Personal Computer are used to conclude the disproval of the hypothesis that the Twisted Edwards curve performs most efficient to achieve its security strength. Namely, Brainpool curves function most efficient within this benchmark, after which Short Weierstrass curves follow. Moreover, it is concluded the performance pattern for both data processors and data providers is equal to each other for all message sizes.

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A workload characterization of elliptic curve cryptography methods in embedded environments

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Cited by 17 publications

References 11 publications

Hardware support for code integrity in embedded processors

Hardware support for code integrity in embedded processors

Impact of Asymmetric Encryption Algorithms in a VANET

A Comparative Analysis of the Computation Cost and Energy Consumption of Relevant Curves of ECC Presented in Literature

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