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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,430 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Crypto Processor Architecture for Side-Channel Resistant Binary Huff Curves on FPGA

  • Usama Umer,
  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Adel R. Alharbi,
  • Ahmed Alhomoud and ,
  • Harish Kumar and
  • Atif Raza Jafri
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This article presents an efficient crypto processor architecture for point multiplication acceleration of side-channel secured Binary Huff Curves (BHC) on FPGA (field-programmable gate array) over GF(2233). We have implemented six finite field polyno...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,073 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2023

The advancement of quantum computing threatens the security of conventional public-key cryptosystems. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) was introduced to ensure data confidentiality in communication channels, and various algorithms are being developed....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Architectures, Protocols and Algorithms of Sensor Networks—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,222 Views
16 Pages

Elliptic-Curve Crypto Processor for RFID Applications

  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Sajjad Shaukat Jamal,
  • Sikandar Zulqarnain Khan,
  • Adel R. Alharbi and ,
  • Amer Aljaedi and
  • Malik Imran
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 July 2021

This work presents an Elliptic-curve Point Multiplication (ECP) architecture with a focus on low latency and low area for radio-frequency-identification (RFID) applications over GF(2163). To achieve low latency, we have reduced the clock cycles by us...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,227 Views
62 Pages

This paper presents TALOS, a unified reusable 6G CryptoProcessor architecture for high-assurance symmetric security services under a 256-bit private-key baseline. The design addresses a core hardware challenge in future mobile systems: supporting het...

(This article belongs to the Topic Trends and Prospects in Security, Encryption and Encoding: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,683 Views
16 Pages

Area-Efficient Realization of Binary Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication Processor for Cryptographic Applications

  • Amer Aljaedi,
  • Sajjad Shaukat Jamal,
  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Adel R. Alharbi and ,
  • Mohammed Alotaibi and
  • Dalal J. Alanazi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 June 2023

This paper proposes a novel hardware design for a compact crypto processor devoted to elliptic-curve point multiplication over GF(2233). We focus on minimizing hardware usage, which we obtain using an iterative bit–serial finite field modular m...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,317 Views
15 Pages

In the Internet of Things (IoT), many strong constraints have to be considered when designing the connected objects, including low cost and low power, thus limited resources. The confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data must however be ensured...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,626 Views
20 Pages

Secure Elliptic Curve Crypto-Processor for Real-Time IoT Applications

  • Stefano Di Matteo,
  • Luca Baldanzi,
  • Luca Crocetti,
  • Pietro Nannipieri and ,
  • Luca Fanucci and
  • Sergio Saponara
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 August 2021

Cybersecurity is a critical issue for Real-Time IoT applications since high performance and low latencies are required, along with security requirements to protect the large number of attack surfaces to which IoT devices are exposed. Elliptic Curve C...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,498 Views
20 Pages

8 January 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that forms a huge network of different objects and intelligent devices. IoT Security is becoming more important due to the exchange of sensitive sensor data and the potential for incorporating th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Codes, Designs, Cryptography and Optimization, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,521 Views
22 Pages

Design Methodology and Metrics for Robust and Highly Qualified Security Modules in Trusted Environments

  • Luca Crocetti,
  • Pietro Nannipieri,
  • Stefano Di Matteo and
  • Sergio Saponara

30 November 2023

Cyberattacks and cybercriminal activities constitute one of the biggest threats in the modern digital era, and the frequency, efficiency, and severity of attacks have grown over the years. Designers and producers of digital systems try to counteract...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,106 Views
14 Pages

AREEBA: An Area Efficient Binary Huff-Curve Architecture

  • Asher Sajid,
  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Sajjad Shaukat Jamal,
  • Malik Imran and ,
  • Saud S. Alotaibi and
  • Mohammed H. Sinky
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Elliptic curve cryptography is the most widely employed class of asymmetric cryptography algorithm. However, it is exposed to simple power analysis attacks due to the lack of unifiedness over point doubling and addition operations. The unified crypto...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,864 Views
14 Pages

Large Field-Size Elliptic Curve Processor for Area-Constrained Applications

  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Omar S. Sonbul,
  • Muhammad Yousuf Irfan Zia,
  • Nadeem Kafi and ,
  • Mohammed H. Sinky and
  • Muhammad Arif
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 January 2023

This article has proposed an efficient area-optimized elliptic curve cryptographic processor architecture over GF(2409) and GF(2571). The proposed architecture employs Lopez-Dahab projective point arithmetic operations. To do this, a hybrid Karatsuba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,331 Views
16 Pages

Throughput/Area-Efficient Accelerator of Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication over GF(2233) on FPGA

  • Muhammad Rashid,
  • Omar S. Sonbul,
  • Muhammad Yousuf Irfan Zia,
  • Muhammad Arif and ,
  • Asher Sajid and
  • Saud S. Alotaibi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 August 2023

This paper presents a throughput/area-efficient hardware accelerator architecture for elliptic curve point multiplication (ECPM) computation over GF(2233). The throughput of the proposed accelerator design is optimized by reducing the total clock cyc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,927 Views
19 Pages

An Embedded Sensor Node Microcontroller with Crypto-Processors

  • Goran Panić,
  • Oliver Stecklina and
  • Zoran Stamenković

27 April 2016

Wireless sensor network applications range from industrial automation and control, agricultural and environmental protection, to surveillance and medicine. In most applications, data are highly sensitive and must be protected from any type of attack...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,023 Views
16 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network-Based Cryptography Ransomware Detection for Low-End Embedded Processors

  • Hyunji Kim,
  • Jaehoon Park,
  • Hyeokdong Kwon,
  • Kyoungbae Jang and
  • Hwajeong Seo

24 March 2021

A crypto-ransomware has the process to encrypt victim’s files. Afterward, the crypto-ransomware requests a ransom for the password of encrypted files to victims. In this paper, we present a novel approach to prevent crypto-ransomware by detecting blo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Mitigation Techniques for Network and Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,134 Views
16 Pages

Armed with Faster Crypto: Optimizing Elliptic Curve Cryptography for ARM Processors

  • Ruben De Smet,
  • Robrecht Blancquaert,
  • Tom Godden,
  • Kris Steenhaut and
  • An Braeken

5 February 2024

Elliptic curve cryptography is a widely deployed technology for securing digital communication. It is the basis of many cryptographic primitives such as key agreement protocols, digital signatures, and zero-knowledge proofs. Fast elliptic curve crypt...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,448 Views
21 Pages

In today’s era of technology, where information is readily available anytime and from anywhere, safeguarding our privacy and sensitive data is more important than ever. The thermal sensors embedded within a CPU are primarily utilized for monito...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,960 Views
18 Pages

DITES: A Lightweight and Flexible Dual-Core Isolated Trusted Execution SoC Based on RISC-V

  • Yuehai Chen,
  • Huarun Chen,
  • Shaozhen Chen,
  • Chao Han and ,
  • Wujian Ye,
  • Yijun Liu and
  • Huihui Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 August 2022

A Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is an efficient way to secure information. To obtain higher efficiency, the building of a dual-core system-on-chip (SoC) with TEE security capabilities is the hottest topic. However, TEE SoCs currently commonly u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging IT Security Technologies in the Computer Systems: Network Security and Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,829 Views
14 Pages

28 June 2020

Along with the recent growth of Internet of Things (IoT) security camera market, there have been a number of personal information leakage incidents from security attacks targeting such cameras. Therefore, a permutation-based video encryption algorith...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Data Processing, Privacy and Security Challenges for Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,322 Views
29 Pages

A Holistic Systems Security Approach Featuring Thin Secure Elements for Resilient IoT Deployments

  • Soodamani Ramalingam,
  • Hock Gan,
  • Gregory Epiphaniou and
  • Emilio Mistretta

14 September 2020

IoT systems differ from traditional Internet systems in that they are different in scale, footprint, power requirements, cost and security concerns that are often overlooked. IoT systems inherently present different fail-safe capabilities than tradit...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,013 Views
15 Pages

Cryptographic primitives nowadays are not only implemented in high-performance systems but also in small-scale systems, which are increasingly powered by open-source processors, such as RISC-V. In this work, we leverage RISC-V’s modular base in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Hardware Security II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,477 Views
24 Pages

A Trusted Execution Environment RISC-V System-on-Chip Compatible with Transport Layer Security 1.3

  • Binh Kieu-Do-Nguyen,
  • Khai-Duy Nguyen,
  • Tuan-Kiet Dang,
  • Nguyen The Binh and ,
  • Cuong Pham-Quoc,
  • Ngoc-Thinh Tran,
  • Cong-Kha Pham and
  • Trong-Thuc Hoang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is designed to establish a safe environment that prevents the execution of unauthenticated programs. The nature of TEE is a continuous verification process with hashing, signing, and verifying. Such a process i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System-on-Chip (SoC) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design)