CSE 551 Computer and Network Security

Term Project: DESIGN OF A RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE FOR EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF SECRET KEY AND PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY

Abstract

For high throughput, area efficient and algorithm independent hardware implementation of cryptographic algorithms, cryptography specific reconfigurable hardware seems a promising solution. This report describes the design of such hardware for supporting both public key and private key cryptography. Though this work is preliminary in nature and needs detailed VLSI level implementation to verify the competitiveness with existing approaches, it nevertheless indicates the feasibility of potential gains mentioned before for both public key and secret key cryptography.