Research Article

Reconfigurable Architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptography Using FPGA

Table 1

Field operations required for the ECC operation.

Occurrences in one Field operations#cycles#cycle of the FSM

Field multiplication (193 bits)1 24
Field squaring 1 15
Field squaring 1 7
Field squaring 1 8
Field addition 1 11
Field reduction (modulo) 1 24