Practical hardware-accelerated pairings which enable novel cryptographic protocols to secure resource-constrained IoT devices.
Abstract:
“We present the first BLS12-381 elliptic-curve pairing cryptoprocessor for Internet-of-Things (IoT) security applications. Efficient finite-field arithmetic and algorithm-architecture co-optimizations together enable two orders of magnitude energy savings. We implement several countermeasures against timing and power side-channel attacks. Our cryptoprocessor is programmable to provide the flexibility to accelerate various elliptic-curve and pairing-based protocols, such as signature aggregation and functional encryption.”
Find the technical paper here (MIT open access) or on IEEE Xplore here.
Published 10/2021. U. Banerjee and A. P. Chandrakasan, “A Low-Power BLS12-381 Pairing Cryptoprocessor for Internet-of-Things Security Applications,” in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 4, pp. 190-193, 2021, doi: 10.1109/LSSC.2021.3124074.
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