학술논문

Computing Cryptographic Algorithms in Portable and Embedded Devices
Document Type
Conference
Source
2007 IEEE International Conference on Portable Information Devices Portable Information Devices, 2007. PORTABLE07. IEEE International Conference on. :1-7 May, 2007
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Embedded computing
Portable computers
Elliptic curve cryptography
Wireless sensor networks
Personal communication networks
Algorithm design and analysis
Communication effectiveness
Cryptographic protocols
Software performance
Software algorithms
Language
Abstract
Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and Pairings get more research attentions for computational constraint devices such as Pocket PCs and wireless sensors. As a result, computational evaluations of various cryptographic algorithms are highly desired to guide researchers to design effective communication protocols. In order to achieve this goal, we conduct comparative performance evaluations for Pocket PC and wireless sensors to study the computational ability to process cryptographic functions, such as point multiplication, Pairings, AES, and hash functions. Our study shows that current Pocket PC level devices are capable to process computational intensive cryptographic functions, such as Parings. However, purely software cryptographic solutions require long time to process cryptographic algorithms and special optimization methods must be used to improve the computation performance.