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In this article we present the fastest known implementation of a modular multiplication for a 160-bit standard compliant elliptic curve (secp160r1) for 8-bit micro controller which are typically used in WSNs. The major part (77%) of the processing time for an elliptic curve operation such as ECDSA or EC Diffie-Hellman is spent on modular multiplication. We present an optimized arithmetic algorithm which significantly speed up ECC schemes. The reduced processing time also yields a significantly lower energy consumption of ECC schemes. With our implementation results we can show that a 160-bit modular multiplication can be performed in 0.39 ms on an 8-bit AVR processor clocked at 7.37 MHz. This brings the vision of asymmetric cryptography in the field of WSNs with all its benefits for key-distribution and authentication a step closer to reality.
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Uhsadel, L., Poschmann, A., Paar, C. (2007). Enabling Full-Size Public-Key Algorithms on 8-Bit Sensor Nodes. In: Stajano, F., Meadows, C., Capkun, S., Moore, T. (eds) Security and Privacy in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. ESAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4572. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73275-4_6
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