Fast prime field elliptic-curve cryptography with 256-bit primes

Shay Gueron, Vlad Krasnov

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Abstract

This paper studies software optimization of elliptic-curve cryptography with 256-bit prime fields. We propose a constant-time implementation of the NIST and SECG standardized curve P-256, that can be seamlessly integrated into OpenSSL. This accelerates Perfect Forward Secrecy TLS handshakes that use ECDSA and/or ECDHE, and can help in improving the efficiency of TLS servers. We report significant performance improvements for ECDSA and ECDH, on several architectures. For example, on the latest Intel Haswell microarchitecture, our ECDSA sign is 2.33 × faster than OpenSSL’s implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)141-151
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Cryptographic Engineering
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Jun 2015

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Keywords

  • EC
  • ECDH
  • ECDSA
  • Haswell
  • Optimization
  • SSL
  • TLS

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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